The deployment is part of a four-year contract between the council and Ubitricity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell, covering charge points in a range of on street and residential locations. This announcement follows on from the company recently passing the milestone of its 7,000th UK charge point, as it continues to build momentum in bringing more publicly available EV charging to the millions of UK drivers without private parking and to help local authorities establish accessible charging infrastructure.
The scheme aims to improve the availability of local EV charging infrastructure for residents without private off-street parking. Through various funding streams, grants covering up to 60% of residential charge point procurement and installation costs are available.
The Ubitricity chargepoints charge at a speed of up to 5kW and can be installed in as little as three hours. The rollout in West Berkshire is planned to be installed in key residential and commercial locations, allowing residents to easily charge hybrid and electric vehicles on the street where they live.
Ubitricity will be deploying up to 250 charge points across West Berkshire using its bollard solutions. These bollard chargepoints are designed to draw power from existing streetlamps and are ideal for rapid residential rollouts, provide a low power, low cost and near-home charging option for councils and local authorities.
