Sung in the style of Oasis’s 1995 song ‘She’s Electric’, we’ve now got the capacity to charge 12 council vehicles at one time at our main office building in Gernon Road, Letchworth.
Additional charge points have recently been installed to accommodate our expanding fleet of electric vehicles (EVs). Herts Careline, part of North Herts Council, will soon have a total of nine electric vans for their engineers who travel across the county to install community alarm and telecare equipment. Our fleet also includes five EVs for our waste management team and we have five plug-in hybrids which are considered ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) – three for our parking team and two for our environmental enforcement officers.
Ian Couper, Service Director for Resources, said: “The new charge points form part of our work to reduce carbon emissions to fight climate change and improve air quality for local residents.”
EV recharging parking bays for public use are in the following North Herts Council long stay car parks:
- Lairage Multi Storey (level 1) Hitchin
- Woodside, Hitchin
- Garden Square Multi Storey (level 5) Letchworth Garden City
- Civic Centre, Royston
- The Twitchell, Baldock
We are also looking at providing more EV chargers for the public to use in our long stay car parks across the district. In addition, Hertfordshire County Council is asking residents to propose electrical vehicle charge points at other locations.
The council declared a climate emergency in May 2019 and we reviewed our Climate Change Strategy in line with the latest research in 2022. Our key targets are to achieve carbon neutrality for our own operations by 2030, and achieve a net zero carbon district by 2040. If you want to find out more about what we are doing and how you can help, please join our Climate Hive.
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