Westminster City Council is leading London with incentives for electric cars and more councils should follow suit, NICE, the electric car retailer says.
Westminster currently hosts 60 re-charging points, the highest concentration of ‘juice points’ in London. It also offers parking concessions – free on-road parking and in council-owned car parks – for a modest annual administration fee of £200. Electric cars help to reduce localised air pollution and are ideally suited to cities like London.
“People buy an electric car for many reasons, but convenience and low running costs are among the most important,” said Julian Wilford NICE co-founder. “Westminster’s support, through parking concessions and juice points, has gone a long way to driving interest in this burgeoning market.”
Cllr Danny Chalkley, Westminster’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said, “We are happy to lead the way here in Westminster and champion electric car drivers. Our recharging points are proving extremely popular with hundreds of people registered to use them. It makes sense to make recharging points a standard format so it’s as easy as possible for people to move to more environmentally friendly forms of transport across London.”
While London Major Boris Johnson, has pledged to continue investment into electric car incentives across London.
