You'll soon be able to charge your electric vehicle whilst out shopping in two Greater Manchester boroughs

Dozens of new charging points for electric vehicles are to be installed in two Greater Manchester boroughs as part of town hall deals worth £25 million.

The councils in Stockport and Bury both today announced they had entered agreements with Be.EV – who have the largest electric vehicle charging network in the North West.

It will see the company paying for the installation and maintenance of 80 chargers across the two areas. A total of 54 of these, which can each charge two vehicles allowing over 100 vehicles to be charged at once, will be situated at 20 different locations in Stockport.

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A full list of these sites has been issued and is available at the bottom of this article. The council there says it will cost £8 million to install the new chargers with operational costs of £7 million over the next 10 years with Be.EV footing the bill.

The council will retain ownership of the sites but the chargers will be installed and managed by Be.EV, who will pay ground rent with the town hall also eventually earn a share of the revenue from them.

In a separate deal worth upwards of £9 million, a total of 30 new chargers are to be installed in Bury, which are also expected to be operational by the end of the year. A full list of the locations there has not yet been issued.

Most of the chargers will be rapid or ultra-rapid models, which can charge a typical electric car to 80 percent in 20 minutes to an hour, compared to four to six hours on a 7kW fast charger.

Bosses say they will be 'primarily in convenient and easily accessible destination areas such as town centre car parks' and will 'make it possible for many more