West Sussex gets 20 charge points
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:50 pm
Well its been a year in the making but yesterday I've at last got the first two 13amp charge points installed at Crawley
http://www.crawleyhappytimes.co.uk/2010 ... into-life/
Paid for by SSE Contracting, West Sussex was been given these 20 charge points to be distributed around the county. While it’s not a massive amount they are a first for West Sussex County Council.
The points are being supplied from Elektromotive, a company based in Brighton East Sussex; one reason for choosing them was because the manufacturing is carried out locally in Lancing and Burgess Hill and thus keeping jobs local to the area.
The posts will be offering free charging but parking charges, where applicable, will still need to be paid for in the regular way.
The first two are located in Crawley to the side of the Town Hall, making them ideally suited for shopping or visiting the Town Hall, currently these offer free parking as well.
Other locations coming very soon will be Chichester, Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing, Storrington, Burgess Hill, Horsham, East Grinstead and Haywards Heath.
The points are electrically connected but wont be fully live until the back office is in place, which all being well will happen in the next few weeks but I wanted to get these first two installed in time for the Future Car Challenge as there is a halfway stop at the technical college of Crawley which is just a stone’s throw from the charge points, if anyone on the day fancies a quick top up then I will be on the WSCC Air Quality stand with a access token which will enable use of the points, but I suspect the competitors wont want to charge as the idea is to use the least amount of power, but for others then just come over and ask or if you just want to go over and see the points then just ask for me.
As more points go on line and the back office is up and running I'll add to this thread with further details.
ChrisB
http://www.crawleyhappytimes.co.uk/2010 ... into-life/
Paid for by SSE Contracting, West Sussex was been given these 20 charge points to be distributed around the county. While it’s not a massive amount they are a first for West Sussex County Council.
The points are being supplied from Elektromotive, a company based in Brighton East Sussex; one reason for choosing them was because the manufacturing is carried out locally in Lancing and Burgess Hill and thus keeping jobs local to the area.
The posts will be offering free charging but parking charges, where applicable, will still need to be paid for in the regular way.
The first two are located in Crawley to the side of the Town Hall, making them ideally suited for shopping or visiting the Town Hall, currently these offer free parking as well.
Other locations coming very soon will be Chichester, Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing, Storrington, Burgess Hill, Horsham, East Grinstead and Haywards Heath.
The points are electrically connected but wont be fully live until the back office is in place, which all being well will happen in the next few weeks but I wanted to get these first two installed in time for the Future Car Challenge as there is a halfway stop at the technical college of Crawley which is just a stone’s throw from the charge points, if anyone on the day fancies a quick top up then I will be on the WSCC Air Quality stand with a access token which will enable use of the points, but I suspect the competitors wont want to charge as the idea is to use the least amount of power, but for others then just come over and ask or if you just want to go over and see the points then just ask for me.
As more points go on line and the back office is up and running I'll add to this thread with further details.
ChrisB