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According to foreign media eeNews, British Telecom has shown some interest in the plan and said that it will “follow” the plan of EasyGo in Ireland and conduct a pilot in the Northern Ireland region of the United Kingdom. Enterprise Etc. conduct.

According to Etc., they will carry out relevant technology pilots in the near future and determine the commercial implementation plan. Etc. claims that there are currently 90,000 phone booths in Northern Ireland and 60,000 of them can be converted into electric vehicle charging piles.

Tom Guy, managing director of Etc., said: “The UK will carry out the “fuel vehicle sales ban” in 2030, but there are currently only about 45,000 public charging piles in the UK, so the top priority is to increase the number of charging piles.”

It is reported that the first phase of this new plan electric vehicle charging pilot is planned to start in the fall of 2023. British Telecom also stated that in addition to Northern Ireland, Etc. also plans to implement the “phone booth transformation charging pile” program in other parts of the UK. Local people in the UK will soon be able to use these new charging piles to charge their cars.

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With the popularity of mobile phones, phone booths have long since become a thing of the past. So Irish telecommunications company Eir and electric vehicle charging network EasyGo started converting phone booths into Tritium EV charging stations about two years ago. This new infrastructure will benefit the community like the public pay phone booths of the past.

EasyGo has committed to deploying 200 Tritium 50kW modular DC fast chargers across Ireland under the scheme, and the company already has 2,400 chargers.

According to the Society of the Irish Motor Industry, one in seven cars sold in Ireland this year is fully electric, and the country’s popularity of electric vehicles is growing rapidly.

Transport accounts for a third of Ireland’s energy-related CO2 emissions. Increasing the penetration of electric vehicles is a key aspect of Ireland’s climate action plan, which sets a target of nearly 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030.

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