Birmingham City Council has launched a new on-street electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint network with the aim of deploying 560 lamppost-mounted chargepoints across residential areas.
In partnership with EV solution provider ubitricity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell, the EV network rollout is targeting areas of the city where access to private off-street parking is limited or unavailable.
The project is being delivered in response to ubitricity data showing that most electric cars are kept at homes without access to a private driveway.
Deployed using Office of Zero Emission Vehicles’s On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme funding, the first 300 of these chargepoints have already been installed, and the remaining 260 will be installed before the end of Spring 2025.
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The pilot rollout is also in line with Birmingham’s broader commitment to the Birmingham Transport Plan (BTP) 2031, and supports the objectives of the Brum Breathes Clean Air Strategy and the Route to Net Zero initiative.
These initiatives aim to make walking, cycling, and public transport the preferred choice for getting around, whilst ensuring that remaining private vehicle use is enabled through access to clean, zero-emissions charging infrastructure.
Cabinet member for environment and transport at Birmingham City Council Majid Mahmood said: “While our focus as a council is on delivering the BTP and encouraging people to swap private vehicles for public transport, we also want to ensure that, for those who require use of a car, we have the infrastructure in place to facilitate use of low or zero-emission vehicles.”
Achievements and innovations in EV charging infrastructure will be recognised and celebrated at the fourth annual CiTTi Awards on 25 November 2025 at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Visit www.cittiawards.co.uk to learn more about this unmissable event for the UK’s transportation sector!
