The Isle of Wight Council is expanding their Electric Vehicle (EV) charging offering with Joju and Mer Charging, to support those without access to off-street parking, with Quay Street in Newport as one of the newest on-street chargers active.
The active chargers are proving popular with Island residents with 441 charging sessions to date, over 7,200 kilowatt hours of electricity drawn and 598 kilograms of Co2 saved. All the charge points are powered by green electricity.
Councillor Phil Jordan, Cabinet Member for Infrastructure, Highways and Transport said:
“I am delighted and encouraged that the first seven on-street electric vehicle charge points are now available for residents to use, and we look forward to increasing this number over the next few weeks.
“We have been receiving a growing number of requests from both residents and visitors for public charging facilities and through our partnership with Joju/ Mer we are planning and working towards meeting the demand as fast as we are able.”
On-street charger locations have been chosen to meet local resident demand and will help the EV transition for residents who cannot benefit from home charging. One parking bay at each site is reserved exclusively for electric vehicles that need to recharge.
Integral to the roll out of the chargepoints is Island Roads, which have been a longstanding partner in the project and have ensured the safe installation of the on-street chargepoints.
In addition to this, Mer are fully funding the installation of seven new rapid chargers and 16 dual fast chargers in public car parks across the Island. This follows the decision by Cabinet in January 2022 to meet the growing demand from electric vehicle drivers, including visitors. This will increase the number of car parks with operational EV chargepoints to 13. It is anticipated that the first of these new off-street installations will be completed by the end of December 2022.
Transitioning to electric vehicles is key to the achievement of the Council’s climate targets. Included in these goals are increasing the number of public chargepoint sockets to at least 72 in council car parks and on private land such as supermarkets and petrol stations.
An Isle of Wight Council spokesperson said:
“We acknowledge that not all chargepoints are in working order at the moment but we are working closely with contractors to get them running as soon as possible.”
Big deal, don’t over do it.
Now reduce the price of the overcharged EV Vehicles.
Does this ‘Green Electric’ come from a different supply to the rest of the IOW?
Awesome another trip hazard on already cluttered pavements.
I believe these chargers require the car owner to use their own Type 2 charging cable, therefore I would think that if someone trips over the cable then the car owner is liable.
Is that the picture of the IOW Green people?
Not much point in putting these on residential streets if the residents without EV’S use them as their own personal parking spots. It is so frustrating if you want to charge your car during the time of 8am to 8pm but you can’t because a non EV car has parked there, where are the traffic wardens. Cars are still there up to 4hrs after complaining to the council.
Can see them charging leads becoming a trip hazard then who is to blame?
How charmingly naive the Council must think we all are.
Powered by ‘green’ energy, just means that the ‘green energy’ used to charge those cars was then not available to supply other users as there is only so much available at any given time.
So they would have had to use the same kWh from non green sources.
After the nation is freezing in their own homes, most now don’t care about being green, just NOT being blue, and wish to have affordable heating no matter what the source.
ONLY the ‘guilty wealthy and naive are now concerned over ‘global warming’ which evidently has yet to happen here.
Just nature creating varying weathers as it has done for ever , not man made but my God a great way to fleece the gullible world wide
yep -MER who are behind the chargers, pay a company called Brytenergy, which is a part of statkraft – a 100% norweigan owned group for the electric – byrt are 100% wind/solar/hydro – however, the glaring problem stands out –
the electric that comes out of your plug socket is definitely not green – it is impossible to “sort” electric, so that you only get the green produced stuff. The whole lot – wind/solar/hydro/nuclear/gas/coal generated electric is all fed into the grid and load balanced accordingly to ensure that the entire country has power when it switches something on
the council aren’t exactly being honest about the energy being green energy, that you are charging your car with, as it is definitely a mix of all sources.
https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
as of 1800 16 December – 57% of uk electric is coming from fossil fuels.
It’s definitely the new religion. And the figures given for ‘COs saved’ never takes into account the whole carbon cost (ridiculous term in itself) of actually producing and transporting all of these things. Anyone who buys into this nonsense really need to watch ‘Planet of The Humans’.
What about those that charge the car and just leave the car there all afternoon and night ?? Also is this/ these/ new parking spot, or sort of removing a standard parking bay, to be become for EV’s only , making one less parking place for each ?? There are people with two cars, one EV one normal..
How would a blind person ‘ see’ the cable whilst walking about… are there special bumps on the pavement..??
How long before someone makes an adapter, then feeds home electric to run heaters and hot water… ??
So if someone trips over that lead and causes injury to themselves and can’t work what happens then? Do you claim off the owner’s insurance?
Just been reading and it’s illegal to run a charging cable across a pavement like that so what happens now??
Yes it’s definitely the motley crew with one of the council fleet of electric car’s …
Recognise that smug grin anywhere!!!!!!!
Not very good parking, and as many have said a trip hazard …..
Blind partially sighted people….
Company House has some interesting information on this Company
A driver with any sense would have parked in front of the machine…
Seeing that cable draped across the pavement makes me wonder who will be held responsible if someone trips over it,
The whole ev business is a sick joke, mining lithium and cobalt destroys and pollutes vast areas but that is ok because it is mined in other countries and not ours so they don’t matter and the lithium itself is a particularly nasty metal, as yet there is no way to recycle the batteries in these cars so there will be mountains of dangerous batteries plus the National Grid is creaking under its existing load so how will it cope with millions of cars being charged.
What a load of bo**ocks, does the power come down special cables, are these people really so utterly stupid to believe that tosh about being powered with “green” energy when the power is coming from nasty gas powered generators, coal, really scary nuclear not to mention gas turbines fuelled with diesel such as Kingston.
nuclear is not scary – read up on the progress made since the 1950’s
there has not been one recorded death due to a nuclear power incident in all its history, however, fossil fuels have been attributed to the deaths of 1 million people in 2017 alone and more than half that figure was related to the burning of coal. A study, which its results should be taken lightly as they are estimated, indicated that 8.2 million people died in 2021, as a result of air pollution due to fossil fuels.
My comment regarding nuclear power was merely being flippant however you are totally incorrect regarding deaths from nuclear incidents.
3 Mile Island 1979 Dauphin County reported 28% increase in radiation attributable cancer and an increase of 58% in infant mortality over that of 1978.
Chernobyl 1986 31 immediate deaths at time of the blast with 60 more directly attributable to exposure to radiation, up to 16,000 long term deaths in Europe, the area surrounding much of the reactor is dangerously contaminated.
Fukushima 2012 573 deaths directly attributable to the disaster in 13 municipalities, 15 of which were workers exposed to fatal doses of radiation in initial clean up attempts, as of 2020 6 further deaths due to radiation.
Marchwood is a gas powered and incinerated rubbish power station , nothing green about that at all , that is like Eon and there claims I only get renewable wind and solar electric to my plug sockets