Ubitricity adds EV charging to lampposts across Birmingham

The expansion of public charging infrastructure with 560 EV charge points will help increase access to overnight charging for residents without off-street parking.

Birmingham City Council announced the launch of a major new project to expand the city’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network in partnership with Ubitricity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell.

The Council is carrying out a pilot deployment of 560 lamppost EV charge points across residential areas of the city where access to private off-street parking is limited or unavailable. This rollout represents the first project of its kind in the UK’s second-largest city and is expected to set a new standard for on-street EV charging. 

Ubitricity will supply, install, own, operate, and maintain the new charge points on behalf of Birmingham City Council.

“Ubitricity is delighted to be supporting Birmingham City Council as they begin this journey to create one of the largest public EV charging networks outside London, encouraging the transition to electric vehicles, and helping to create a cleaner and healthier, environment for the people of Birmingham,” said Stuart Wilson, UK Managing Director of Ubitricity.

All 560 charge points will be installed in lampposts on 82 streets across the city, with each point taking less than an hour to install. 

The first 300 of these charge points have already been installed  between 15th October and 24th December by Ubitricty, and the remaining 260 will be installed before the end of Spring 2025.