Welcome to your Go Ultra Low Nottingham August Newsletter

Hackney cab drivers will soon have dedicated rapid chargers

We were successful in securing £700,000 of funding from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles to install charge points for ULEV Hackney cabs. Things have not been straight forward, and we have been working to find suitable on-street locations in the city centre. After a complex balancing act, we are very pleased to announce that the first charge points for ULEV hackney cabs are on the way. Cab drivers will soon be able to charge from:

⚡️Curzon Place: one rapid (on-street)

⚡️⚡️Canal Street: two rapids (on-street)

⚡️⚡️Victoria Embankment (green street car park): two rapids (off-street)

We are still assessing a good number other locations in the city centre, which will soon be under construction. Each location will have at least one rapid charger dedicated for hackney taxi charging. 

Follow us as we pave the way for zero emission taxis. 

We're 4 chargers away from the 300 milestone

Not long ago, we reached our target of 230 charge points in the D2N2 area, now only three months later, there are only four chargers left to reach the big 300 milestone. Here is a glimpse of what we did this month to achieve this. 

We commissioned our most northern site!

We installed one rapid in Chancery Lane - Redford, making it our most northern site in the network.

Going shopping in East Midlands Designer Outlet?

Then worry no more about range anxiety as we have now installed 8 fast sockets so you can charge while you shop!

One more rapid in Nottingham!

We now have one rapid in Harvey Road in Nottingham City Homes car park, the rapid is publicly accessible and is also part of the D2N2 network.

Find out where the 296 charge points are.

Stop, press! ULEV lane featured on East Midlands Today

We were asked by East Midlands Today recently to tell people more about our ULEV lane, as part of a series they’ve been running on efforts to tackle climate change.

Councillor Sally Longford, the council’s Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder or Energy and Environment, talked about how the shared bus/ULEV lane encouraged people to think about ultra low emission vehicles. The reporter also spoke to driving instructor Paul Whitburn about the benefits of the lane and people’s growing awareness of ultra low emission vehicles.

It was a positive item highlighting the City Council and Go Ultra Low’s efforts to reduce air pollution by encouraging cleaner, greener vehicles.

Find out more about what we are doing to improve air quality here.

🌿🎉Visit this year's Nottingham Green Festival

The festival of all festivals is less than month away now, are coming along ? 

Come and join us at the Nottingham Green Festival on 15th September in the Arboretum. We'll be there showcasing a few of the latest electric vehicles on the market and a number of EV experys from Drive Electric, Cenex and Nottingham's very own EV Owners club will be on hand to help answer all your questions about EVs.

Find out more...

Help us gather evidence on the demand for EV only bays

Some of you have questioned why there are ‘mixed use’ parking bays at some of our charge point locations. Our approach is to complete the expensive charge point installation works now – when we have funding to do so – but only reserve the number of bays based on current usage.

Currently, there just ins't the demand for the number of charge points we're building, but in the future, when demand increases we can convert more bays to designated charging bays and the charge points will already be in place. But in order to do this, we need to gather evidence on the demand for the bays in our sites. So let us know if you find yourself unable to charge due to a car park being at full capacity or because an ICE( internal combustion engine) vehicle or another ULEV is blocking the bay. 

Submit your evidence here.

Notts Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at the forefront of the business transition to ULEVs

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust  is  also leading the public sector transition to cleaner vehicles with its new fully electric vans. This puts them one step closer to their target to convert 25% of their fleet to ULEVs by 2028. The new EVs will be used for both the Endpoint Support Team and Transport & Logistics Team. 

Rob Mathews from Trent & Derwent Logistics said that the increased network of charge points in the Trust gave them the ability to confidently travel greater distances. He also added that working closely with the Trust Energy & Environment Team and Drive Electric (EV lease provider) allowed them to evaluate a range of electric light commercial vehicles available within their price range. The Nissan e-NV200 was chosen and delivered in July 2019, following driver feedback on the vehicles’ practicality to use and the battery range to meet the needs of their service. Drivers using the vehicle found it to be very comfortable, quiet and easy to drive, so in addition to reducing vehicle emissions they are also reducing vehicle noise pollution around the areas of their service provision.

Are you also considering switching to cleaner vehicles? Our Workplace Travel Service programme offers free ULEV loans to businesses for up to a month. Express your interest here.