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Sainsbury’s launches London electric car network

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has launched an electric car recharging network in London that will be free for customers.

The electric car recharging points are located at 11 stores spread across the capital in Beckton, Camden, Chiswick, Cromwell Road, East Dulwich, Greenwich, Islington, North Cheam, Sydenham, Wandsworth and Whitechapel.

“This will turn London into an electric vehicle superhighway,” says Sainsbury’s commercial director, Neil Sachdev. “In ten years time, we envisage that recharge points will be available at all of our stores in large cities.”

The move has been welcomed by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, as part of his efforts to turn the city into Europe’s electric vehicle capital.

“Central to this aim is the provision of charge points across the capital to ensure Londoners can go electric with the confidence that they can charge up where ever they are,” he said.

The Sainsbury’s network will put half of London’s population within three miles of an electric car recharging point, he added.

Earlier this year, Sainsbury’s unveiled kinetic road plates at a store in Gloucester that can generate up to 30 kW an hour as cars drive over them. http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/i/2180/

For further information:
www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/

06 November 2009

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