Sainsbury’s offer free electric car charging points in London

Sainsbury’s had launched new electric car charging points that will give Londoners easy access to recharge networks. The move boosted the plan of Mayor Boris Johnson to make UK’s capital city as ‘Europe’s electric vehicle capital’.

About 70 per cent of London’s harmful carbon dioxide emissions come from road transport. The mayor’s £60 million electric car charging points plan is just a fraction of the city’s 2025 ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent. He wants 25,000 electric car refuelling docks in London’s workplaces, streets, retail parks and parking lots by 2015, providing green service to 100,000 battery-propelled automobiles.

In addition, Mayor Johnson had informed that the government will deliver 2,500 recharge networks in London. He urged businesses to finance the remaining 22,500 electric car charging points.

Sainsbury’s is UK’s first business to introduce electric vehicle parking networks for public use. The retailer had already installed new recharging points to 11 of its branches, namely Whitechapel, Wandsworth, Sydenham, North Cheam, Islington, Greenwich Peninsula, East Dulwich, Cromwell Road, Chiswick, Camden and Beckton.

Neil Sachdev, Commercial Director of Sainsbury’s, said that the move will help turn London into an ‘electric car super-highway’. Sainsbury’s forecasted that in 10 years period, it will have electric car charging points available in all of its stores.

Sachdev added that there are around 5,000 registered battery-powered vehicles in the UK. Compared to gasoline-powered vehicles, electric cars produce no emission and make lesser noise. Electric automobiles are also getting more popular to Londoners as the technology develops, making recharge points increasingly becoming more important in the city.