Please provide information with regards to the council’s current and future plans for charging infrastructure relating to electric vehicles; including street cleaning, drain cleaning and waste and recycling collection vehicles at council depots.
1) Do any of your council depots have the following chargers in place at present from the below list?
- AC charging up to a 22 KW AC charger with Type 2 connection – Yes.
- DC charging up to 150 kw using a CCS2 connector – No.
- AC charging using up to 43 KW with Type 2 connection – No.
- DC charging up to 250 KW using CCS2 connector – No.
- AC charging using 22 kw charger with Type 2 connection – No.
- 3 phase connection using either 32 amp or 63-amp power supply – No.
- AC charging using standard Type 2 connection with a 7.5 kw or 22kw power supply – Yes.
- 13-amp socket via an alternative cable – No.
2) Please provide the total number of chargers in use at present.
There are 25 chargers in use at present. These are AC charging up to a 22 KW AC charger with Type 2 connection/AC charging using standard Type 2 connection with a 7.5 KW or 22 KW power supply.
3) Are there plans in place to have any of the chargers listed above fitted in future? If so, please provide the number of chargers and when they will be in use.
Yes. There are plans to fit 9 chargers (AC charging up to a 22 KW AC charger with Type 2 connection) in March 2025.