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Deputy Mayor Sue Heins at the new EV charger at Ocean Street, Narrabeen. Image courtesy of Chrissie Hall

Tuesday, 4 April 2023

Did you know the Northern Beaches is one of the fastest growing areas for EV uptake?

According to the Australian Government, the transport sector is responsible for a whopping 19% of Australia’s total carbon emissions so encouraging people to switch to electric vehicles is a great way to reduce our carbon emissions.

We’ve recently installed three more EV charging stations at Winbourne Road in Brookvale, Ocean Street in Narrabeen and Lagoon Street Carpark at Narrabeen.

There are now more than 20 EV charging locations across the Northern Beaches with many more in the pipeline.

Recent additions to the network were installed by JOLT and include two new chargers on Council land in Narrabeen and a new charger in Brookvale. JOLT’s network is powered by 100% Australian certified green energy and provides EV drivers with free, fast charging and best of all they pay nothing for the first 7kWh every day. 

Council is also leading by example, continually adding electric vehicles to our fleet to meet our 30 percent reduction in vehicle emissions by 2038, as outlined in our MOVE Northern Beaches Transport Strategy.

Council currently has five fully electric, five plug-in hybrid and 15 hybrid vehicles in its fleet, with many more fully electric models to arrive later this year.

Check out the map of publicly available EV chargers to see where your nearest one is.