A new pilot scheme backed by the Scottish Government aims to make electric vehicles more accessible to households without traditional off-street parking. The Cross Pavement Charging Grant pilot programme will fund the installation of charging solutions in East Lothian, Renfrewshire and Perth and Kinross.

Grants of up to £3,500 per household will be available for solutions such as pavement gulley technology or pop-up bollards. Alison Wilkie had a cross-pavement charging channel installed outside her home in North Berwick in 2023.

She said: “We do not have off-street parking and we wanted to make use of the lower overnight tariffs offered by our electricity provider, which make it much cheaper to charge the car compared with the commercial on-street installations.

“We could have put some

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