I remember reading about this a while back - good to see they’ve gone ahead and started the pilot.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

This pilot project by BT will explore how this solution could be scaled up to address the lack of chargers on UK roads, something that motoring groups have said is holding back Britain’s electric car revolution.

Tom Guy, CEO of Etc., the start-up and digital incubation arm at BT Group, said that this solution was a “huge step” in addressing the barriers customers face.

“Working closely with local councils in Scotland and more widely across the UK, we are at a critical stage of our journey in tackling a very real customer problem that sits at the heart of our wider purpose to connect for good,” he said.

“Harnessing existing street furniture is a great way to increase the number of public EV charging points without further adding to clutter along our footpaths,” he said.

“Making this even more valuable, many of these green street cabinets are located in residential areas across the UK, including smaller villages and towns, where charging infrastructure is most severely lacking.”

The Department for Transport told the BBC that they have committed “hundreds of millions of pounds to expand local charging across England.”

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