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Whiteley Shopping (Link: http://www.whiteleyshopping.co.uk) is a major retail centre adjacent to M27 Junction 9, equidistant between Portsmouth and Southampton. It reopened in May last year after an £84m rebuild (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22636016). They currently have 2 PodPoint posts which have been unreliable and which failed to work when I organised a South Coast EV meet (#SoCEV) last year forcing EV Drivers from as far afiled as Bristol to charge from Commando plugs around the site. Since then I have been in periodic contact with Whiteley Village who are keen to positively promote electric car charging at the location.
Whiteley Shopping are now building a new multi-screen cinema on site resulting in the loss of one of the Pod Point charging posts. They have approached me about hosting a Rapid Charger as this is what EV drivers visiting Whiteley are demanding, Ecotricity are leading the strategic roll-out of a Nationwide network of Rapid Chargers and I think it would be a game changer if Ecotriicty could install a charger at Whiteley. Hampshire County Council have completely mis-planned the M27 corridor with no Rapid Charging from the Ecotricity installation at Rownhams Services until East of Chichester where West Sussex county council have indicated they may install a Rapid Charger.
EV drivers - please vote and give feedback as to how important such an installation would be........
Whiteley Shopping are now building a new multi-screen cinema on site resulting in the loss of one of the Pod Point charging posts. They have approached me about hosting a Rapid Charger as this is what EV drivers visiting Whiteley are demanding, Ecotricity are leading the strategic roll-out of a Nationwide network of Rapid Chargers and I think it would be a game changer if Ecotriicty could install a charger at Whiteley. Hampshire County Council have completely mis-planned the M27 corridor with no Rapid Charging from the Ecotricity installation at Rownhams Services until East of Chichester where West Sussex county council have indicated they may install a Rapid Charger.
EV drivers - please vote and give feedback as to how important such an installation would be........