One North East and Nissan have entered the next phase of their partnership on the development of zero emission mobility in North East England.
One North East will install at least 619 publicly available, ‘future-proof' charging points by January 1, 2011, which will support both 3kW and 7kW charges and will also include twelve 50kW ‘rapid-charging' stations.
Electricity at the 619 charging points will be provided free until March 31, 2012, or until an itemised billing system becomes available.
Nissan has agreed to work in partnership with One North East to supply Nissan LEAF electric vehicles to the region in early-2011 and to place priority on requests for electric vehicles in the UK from North East England.
Their agreement also contains firm commitments on incentives for drivers and education and demonstration initiatives that will be introduced throughout 2010 and 2011.