UK set to plug in
An £11m scheme to introduce thousands of charging points for electric and hybrid vehicles should see nine UK towns and cities plugged in over the coming year.
London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Middlesborough, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Oxford and Sunderland will be guinea pigs for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) scheme, which will eventually go national.
Under the scheme, called the Joined-Cities Plan, ETI aims to have 50,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015. London Mayor Boris Johnson said at the unveiling of the plan that he intended to have 25,000 charging points installed in city centre locations.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk