I have been emailing Basingstoke Council on and of since i bought my car in February and this an extract from one of the repies.
Dear Mr Steele,
Sorry for the delay in responding. I am pleased to inform you that the borough council and its partners are looking to implement some public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the borough, examples of which are detailed below:
Churchill Way – Long Stay Car Park
The Borough Council has offered two parking spaces to enable Hampshire County Council to install two 7kw (3-4 hour charge) electric vehicle charging points in this borough council controlled car park. The charge points will be installed, maintained and operated by SSE as part of a PFI agreement.
A303 – Little Chef Car Park
The County Council in conjunction with SSE are installing a number of rapid chargers on the strategic highway network across the County. One of these will be installed in the A303 Little Chef Car Park. It is anticipated that this charger will be operational by the end of June 2014.
Basingstoke Town Centre
The Council is seeking to implement a triple head Rapid Charger in a Basingstoke Town Centre public car park that is accessible 24 hours a day. The location will be determined following detailed site assessment work that is due to commence in the near future.
In addition, the recently approved John Lewis / Waitrose development will provide electric vehicle charging points within its car park.
So that is really dissapionting because theres quite a bit of difference there, but its a start, i did point out there was a charger already at A303 Little Chef that fell on deaf ears, and what payment scheme will it be or will it be free.Rest assured if i see it iced i will report it no messing.
Although i personally would'nt use them much if at all its good for the ev community in general so we mustnt complain, well not to much.