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Edinburgh expands electric charging for car club members
The car club chargers and electric vehicles provide opportunities for residents to try out and use electric vehicles without needing to own their own vehicle.
Edinburgh City Council is launching 72 new electric charging bays, installed by the local authority’s current car club provider, Enterprise Car Club, and funded by Transport Scotland.
The first phase of 20 chargers (40 charging bays) has been installed with the rest due to be rolled out by the end of this year allowing Enterprise Car Club to provide in Edinburgh, their biggest electric car club fleet for a single local borough or council in the UK.
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As well as benefiting existing members, the new car club chargers and electric vehicles provide opportunities for new users to try out and use electric vehicles without needing to own their own vehicle.
This offers significant cost savings to users, as well as helping to improve congestion and air quality within Edinburgh, with car club vehicles compliant within the Low Emissions Zone, which will be enforced from June 2024.
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The council has delivered more than 100 electric vehicle chargers since 2022 with funding from Transport Scotland and the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.
This roll-out is designed to encourage and support the take-up of cleaner, low emission electric vehicles.
“Residents now have access to this modernised, cleaner and even more environmentally friendly form of cost-effective electric mobility”
“It’s great to see that we have extended the network of electric vehicle chargers across Edinburgh to include car club users in the city,” said councillor Scott Arthur, transport and environment convener.
“Residents now have access to this modernised, cleaner and even more environmentally friendly form of cost-effective electric mobility. Motor transport contributes significantly to carbon emissions, and the switch to more sustainable transport is essential to achieving the city’s net zero target.
“The new chargers and vehicles also align with our City Mobility Plan to improve our transport system to make it cleaner and more sustainable, and create safe, attractive, and healthy streets and spaces for people to walk, wheel, cycle in and enjoy.”
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