Electric car charging points rolled out in Haverfordwest

10:50am Friday 20th July 2012 in News

Charging points for electric cars have been installed in Haverfordwest’s multi storey car park and the car park in County Hall.

Drivers will be able to purchase a £5 swipe card from County Hall and use this to access the points and charge up their cars for free.


Cllr Rob Lewis, cabinet spokesman for highways and planning, told full council how the Welsh Government funded points were installed last week and will be launched properly at the end of the month.


Cllr Lewis said that the charging points would be in place for a trial period which would assess take up and demand.

He said that there was a possibility of asking the Welsh Government to expand the scheme throughout the county if take up was high.

Comments(4)

Tttoommy says...
8:01am Sat 21 Jul 12

amazing waste of money(more cars than points) but then that's what councils do

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Tina2 says...
8:11pm Sat 21 Jul 12

How many electric cars are there in the county and surrounding areas?

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danthomas says...
10:03pm Sat 21 Jul 12

I understand that about 2200 electric cars have been sold in the UK since 2006 and 2500 charging points have been installed. The Government give a £5,000 grant towards the purchase of an electric car but you still have to find another £25,000 which has put most people off buying one. I suppose the more that are sold the cheaper they'll become but take up at present remains slow and the very expensive batteries have to be changed every 5 years or so. I think the average cost of a new diesel/petrol car may be less than the cost of the replacement batteries in an electric car!
Assuming an even spread across the UK population, there could be about 4 or 5 electric cars in Pembrokeshire.

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taff2010 says...
4:30pm Mon 23 Jul 12

More electric cars more people getting run over as you cant hear them. Use petrol/diesel and keep our refineries going!

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