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Picture it! Streetlight Charging Points for Electric Cars

December 4, 2013

Berlin-based start-up Ubitricity has set out to bring electric cars into the mainstream. Its vision is for smart cables to allow convenient re-charging at any of hundreds of streetlights around town.

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That would put an end to the long, tiresome search for workable re-charging stations in the city. It would cost only €500 to convert a streetlight instead of around €10,000 for a special re-charging station.