News JVTech This city is going to transform this object at the bottom of our house into an electric car charger
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Recharging your electric car in town is a real hassle, especially when you don’t have a garage available. But with a little imagination, a whole charging network can emerge…
Soon one less problem for electric cars?
Charging your electric car if you don’t have your own garage can be a real problem – especially in town. It’s even one of the main difficulties in facilitating the adoption of this type of vehicle. Fortunately, a lot of car manufacturers and players are aware of this limitation and are working on solutions to remedy this problem. One of them is that presented by the liverpool city council.
The English city has partnered with Ubitricity to install 300 charging points on the streets, which will be made available to residents and local businesses. With this addition, the city will have a generous network of low-power public chargers, which in no way deteriorate the aesthetics of the city, since they will be integrated into the urban architecture. Our British friends are used to this system, since London, for example, is already equipped with these discreet and very practical chargers for city dwellers.
Take advantage of an object that everyone knows to recharge electric cars
Thanks to the partnership with Ubitricity, the city will go from 150 to 450 public chargers. These new chargers will be located at locations chosen by residents and will be installed on existing streetlights. To go into a bit more detail, each charging point has a 5kW power and does not take no more than two hours to install. The press release states: “Rollout is planned in key residential and commercial locations, allowing residents to easily charge their hybrid and electric vehicle on the street where they live. »
Photo credit: Ubitricity
The idea in all of this is to take advantage of the connection of the streetlights to the city’s electrical network, to be able, with a little work, to use these points present in all the streets, as a base to recharge your electric car. In the image above, you can see that the system couldn’t be simpler, since you just have to plug its cord into the socket on the lamp post. The company belonging to the Shell company explains that this method is much less expensive than installing new charging stations. Points will be chosen based on requests from local residents; Liverpool City Council also explains that it receives more than 10 requests a week. It should be noted that visitors will also be able to use them, because they will be available to all drivers.
As we explained to you above, Ubitricity also has electric charging stations on streetlights in London, where it began testing them in 2018. Payment can be managed from mobile top-up apps and is done using a QR code on each lamp post for easy linking. However, this type of charging is not entirely new. Manufacturers such as BMW has been offering it for years. Little by little, the system has been consolidated and we can already see that cities like Liverpool are taking it into account to extend their network of public chargers. It remains to be seen when the turn of France will come…
