Plug in and hit the road

It was confirmed yesterday that electric car owners are now benefitting from a free fast-charging facility at Johnstone.

The charger at the town’s station is available to all customers parking at the station, and costs nothing to use.

A complete charge from the 22kW supply will typically take around four hours, twice as fast as ‘plugging- in’ at home, bosses say.

A total of 100 spaces will be created at 50 of the ScotRail Alliance’s station car parks by the end of the year, joining over 700 publicly-available charge points across the country.

The ScotRail Alliance’s programmes and transformation director, Ian McConnell, told the Paisley Daily Express: “We’re building the best railway Scotland has ever had, and improved facilities for customers at our stations is a huge part of this.

“These additions to our car parks, combined with longer trains, more seats and better services, will all help us to achieve our aim of reducing the carbon footprint.”