PLANS have been announced to install a number of public charging stations for electric cars at Clackmannanshire Community Healthcare Centre.
This forms part of the Charge Place Scotland Network initiative, which will also see 16 electric vehicle chargers switched on at Forth Valley hospital on Tuesday, May 2.
These 16 chargers will bring the total hospital chargers to a total of 36, with additional chargers installed to support the health board’s growing fleet of electric vehicles.
Derek Jarvie, NHS Forth Valley’s head of climate change and sustainability, said: “Introducing EV charging points across local healthcare facilities and switching to electric fleet vehicles is part of a wider drive to reduce our carbon footprint.
“We also aim to support local staff, patients and visitors to use greener, more sustainable forms of transport. “Efforts to remove all non-electric cars from our fleet by 2025 continue and we now have 46 fully electric fleet vehicles with a further 15 on order.”
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