City charges up its electric vehicle infrastructure with £2.2m investment

City of York Council is working with Evo Energy to start construction on the largest HyperHub sites in the region.The council is investing £2.2m to develop sites, next to Monks Cross and Poppleton Bar Park and Rides, into high speed electric vehicle charging hubs.Each HyperHub site will consist of solar PV canopies, battery energy storage, four Rapid and four Ultra Rapid electric vehicle chargers.The chargers will help the region support the next generation of electric vehicles, which have significantly larger battery capacities and support higher charging speeds.Construction on both sites has started, and will be led by EvoEnergy. The sites at Monks Cross and Poppleton are scheduled for completion in June 2021.City of York Council has secured £1m of European Regional Development Funding and £800,000 from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, along with £400,000 of its own capital funding to install the first two HyperHubs.