An English town has become the first place in Britain and one of the first in the world to get an all-electric service station for electric vehicles without a single petrol pump in sight.
The facility has just been opened by Gridserve in a lay-by on the A131 road in White Notley near Braintree in Essex. It enables 36 electric vehicles to be charged at the same time. It gets power from big batteries and a nearby subsidy-free solar farm.
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