The City of Sydney Council is to ask for tenders for up to 12 new electric car charging stations to be installed next year to help Sydneysiders plug in clean, green vehicles.
“Electric cars are the way of the future and will help (the) council reduce CO2 emissions from its vehicles by 20 per cent by 2014,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.
“We’re already trialling two of the first production electric cars available in Australia, recharged by electricity from 240 solar panels on the roof of Sydney Town Hall.”
The new public charge points will be in Kings Cross parking station, Goulburn Street parking station and two street-level carparks on Cope St in Redfern and Wilson St in Newtown.
But electric cars aren’t altogether new to Sydney.
“It’s hard to believe electric cars were so incredibly popular in the early 1900s but disappeared when petrol vehicles came along and people wanted to travel greater distances and were basically ignorant of the adverse impacts effect on the planet,” Ms Moore said.
“So now, we’re turning back the clock as electric cars make a comeback.”
Australia’s first public electric vehicle charging station was installed in Glebe last year.
