Leeds has been voted as the best place in the UK for electric vehicle charging
Good news for electric vehicle owners.
New research has declared Leeds as the best place in the UK to charge electric vehicles with a perfect score of 10/10.
A new survey by Select Car Leasing have uncovered the UK cities that facilitate the most electric charging stations in their car parks- and Leeds has come up top.
The perfect score was found by making a seedlist of UK cities and their major car parks, the best cities to park in the UK were ranked and revealed using the following criteria; the number of car parks available, the number of car park spaces, the average price for one day of parking, the number of electric charging points, semantic analysis on Google reviews and analysed to create the survey.
The same survey also found that the average cost to park your car in Leeds for one day costs £21.68.
The top ten places in the UK for electric vehicles was announced as followed:
- Leeds (10/10)
- Edinburgh (9.1/10)
- London (8.2/10)
- Bristol (7.3/10)
- Glasgow (6.4/10)
- Birmingham (5.5/10)
- Nottingham (4.5/10)
- Leicester (3.6/10)
- Manchester (2.7/10)
- Cardiff (0.9/10)
- Liverpool (0.9/10)
- Sheffield (0/10)
Leeds had an overwhelming 105 different charging points, compared to just 8 in neighbouring Yorkshire city Sheffield and 28 in Manchester.
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Edinburgh was given the second spot for its electric charging option at NWR Edinburgh Waverley Station Long Stay Car Park which scored 10/10 and Fountain Park Entertainment Centre Car Park which scored 9.3/10, placing the Scottish city ahead of London as a result.
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