13 December 2011 09:29

ELECTRIC CARS

Electric dreams come true at council car park

Lincoln has taken another step towards reducing its carbon footprint, with Lucy Tower Car Park becoming the county’s first car park to have an electric car charging point.

The £5,000 duel charging point, which is part of the City of Lincoln Council’s ‘Lincoln Green’ campaign and has been funded by DEFRA and Cenex, will allow electric car owners to charge their vehicles for free when using the council-owned car park, with two cars able to charge at a time.

City Council staff will be able to try out the charging point over the next few weeks, with the loan of an EV Smart Car from Cenex to use as a pool car.

Councillor Fay Smith, Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services and Public Protection at the City of Lincoln Council, said: “We’ve been working for some months now to install an electric car charging point in Lucy Tower Car Park, and we’re very pleased to be able to open it to the public. This is one of a number of Lincoln Green schemes we have ongoing to help reduce the city’s carbon footprint, such as installing solar panels on some of our properties and organising Lincoln’s first climate change conference. I think Lincoln, with its relatively small boundary, is the perfect place to own an electric car, so I hope it will be well used.”

To use the charging points, which are located on the top floor of Lucy Tower Car Park, electric vehicle owners will need to use their charging card and normal parking charges apply.

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