In the UK, BT Group is looking at repurposing soon-to-be redundant street cabinets for copper wires into on-street electric vehicle charging stations. Pilot projects over the next two years will convert or upgrade street cabinets. The first pilots will start this autumn in Northern Ireland.
BT Group will convert or upgrade its street cabinets into electric vehicle (EV) charging units, after announcing details of a two-year pilot scheme. The scheme will provide critical insight into the viability to scale EV charging to more locations across its estate.
Pilots aim to extend usefulness of near end-of-life green street cabinets as EV charge pointsUp to 60,000 street cabinets could be used in this way, tackling the current national shortfall in EV charging infrastructurePilot rollout to take place as almost two-thirds of people in the UK (60%)1 say they think that EV charging infrastructure is ina...
Etc.’s early projections suggest that, over time, as many as 60,000 of the Group’s 90,000 cabinets may be suitable for upgrades to EV charging points; but neither the trials nor any potential scaling of the new EV charge network would present any change or disruption to the telecommunications services supported from the cabinets.
Pilot projects over the next two years will convert or upgrade street cabinets. The first pilots will start this autumn in Northern Ireland. BT Group says more pilot locations will be added across the UK later in the year.
When the manufacturer produces only CEV s, the charging stations should be built, and when the manufacturer produces both CEV s and SEV s, the construction of integrated charging stations will become a trend because it can meet the needs of different EV s owners and accommodate the development of CEV s and SEV s.