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BT has abandoned its scheme to turn green street cabinets into electric vehicle (EV) charging points having completed only one of the 60,000 conversions it initially said it was aiming for.

The metal cases, seen on streets around the UK, are usually used for phone and broadband cables.

When it announced the project in January 2024, BT said repurposing the cabinets was a "unique opportunity" to address a "key barrier" to people switching away from petrol and diesel cars.

However, the scheme has now been scrapped with the firm saying it will be focussing on "the Wi-Fi connectivity challenge surrounding EV's" instead.

"It's disappointing that it's not going to proceed," Stuart Masson from automotive website The Car Expert told BBC News.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75zwyeq3v9o

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They obviously went the extra mile to install charging points everywhere

[Livia]

Combustion engines ftw...