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Welcome to your Plug in Newsletter, keeping you?regularly updated on electric and sustainable transport news taking place across Nottingham.
Zap-Map and Admiral Car Insurance have joined together in search of the cities with the quickest types of charging points across the UK.
With 92 rapid chargers and 30 ultra-rapid, Nottingham sits top of the tree with a grand total of 122. The Midlands as a whole was labelled as a hotspot for charging your electric car as quickly as possible.
Chargers which are used at home are typically known as ?slow? or ?fast? devices which charge overnight. Rapid chargers can vary from 20 minutes to an hour and add around 100 miles of charge whereas ultra-rapid chargers can add around 100 miles of charge in just 15 minutes.
For more information, click here.
If you?d like to know more about Nottingham?s EV chargers, click here.
Construction has now begun on Trent Street to trial new wireless charging for hackney cabs situated in the rank nearby Nottingham Station. The project will be a UK first to trial wireless technology with electric taxis!
Five wireless charging ground pads are being installed in the coming weeks whilst nine electric and hybrid taxis have been fitted with wireless charging equipment.
Local drivers will soon be able to use these vehicles to charge wirelessly and provide feedback to the project team to help understand the real-world feasibility of wireless charging and to help develop the technology further.
It is hoped that taxi drivers will top up their charge throughout the day while they wait for customers. This will significantly reduce down time spent away from the rank using plug in chargers whilst encouraging the shift to electric taxi adoption to improve local air quality, reduce noise pollution and carbon emissions in the city. The trial is set to start later in the summer 2022.
To find out more about the wireless charging electric taxis (WiCET), click?here.
For the WiCET homepage, click?here.
 Nottingham?s e-scooters continue to be a popular mode of transport which has resulted in an increase in our fleet size from 750 to 1,000. The high demand has seen us reach the heights of over 1.5 million rides with more than 2.3 million miles travelled.
In July, SuperPedestrian will be attending Nottingham Pride next month where they will be talking about safety and conduct around e-scooter riding as well as being part of the parade. There will be a chance of gain some free credits and giveaways too!
This green mode of travel is just 15p per minute and with a half price unlock fee of 50p throughout the summer!
Remember whilst riding:
- You must ride on the road and shared paths
- Only one person per e-scooter
- Helmets are encouraged
To find out more about Nottingham?s e-scooter scheme, click here.
Download the app for iPhones?or Android? today to ride the e-scooters.
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