{"id":627344,"date":"2024-01-09T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T05:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=627344"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:11:13","slug":"britains-bt-to-turn-street-cabinets-into-ev-charging-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britains-bt-to-turn-street-cabinets-into-ev-charging-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s BT to turn street cabinets into EV charging points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest telecoms group, said it would convert the first of its street cabinets traditionally used to house cabling to an electric vehicle (EV) charging unit in a pilot that could lead to a network of 60,000 new points.<\/p>\n<p>The first unit will be installed at a cabinet in East Lothian, Scotland, BT said on Monday, adding that it will roll out further trials across Britain in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>BT said its research showed a shortage of chargers on Britain&#8217;s roads was deterring some people from buying an EV, with 38% of drivers saying they would have an EV already if charging were less of an issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest telecoms group, said it would convert the first of its street cabinets traditionally used to house cabling to an electric vehicle (EV) charging unit in a pilot that could lead to a network of 60,000 new points. The first unit will be installed at a cabinet in East Lothian, Scotland, BT said on Monday, adding that it will roll out further trials across Britain in the coming months. BT said its research showed a shortage of chargers on Britain&#8217;s roads was deterring some people from buying an EV, with 38% of drivers saying they would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}