Council spent £8,000,000 on electric bin vans that can’t be charged! Shocked that this is not Conwy Council!

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When I read this I thought it must be Conwy Council following yet another fiasco wasting millions such as renting a building it cannot use on a 35-year lease and wasting millions!


see....https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/18305605.council-entered-35-year-lease-mochdre-premises-cant-use/

But alas I was wrong, it was just another council wasting millions of the taxpayers' money!

A fleet of eco-friendly, electric bin wagons has been ‘hidden’ by civic chiefs – because there aren’t enough power points to charge them, a councillor claims.

York City Council spent £8million on 25 vehicles to replace diesel trucks – but they are sitting idle as they can’t be powered up.

Cllr Mark Warters said the ­situation was farcical and an embarrassment. He also claimed taxpayers’ money has been wasted to store the fleet at a contractor’s yard – allegations city bosses deny.

‘The vehicles haven’t been used yet. The council is behind with installing a charging infrastructure but because they’d already ­procured the vehicles, they’ve had to accept them,’ the independent councillor, 58, said.

‘You would have thought there would be satisfactory due diligence carried out before you engage in a project to turn a local authority fleet over from diesel to electric.

‘The wider side of this is, even when they get chargers in place, how do you manage a fleet when there are council workers that will start at ridiculous hours… 5am in the morning?

A fleet of new multi-million-pound electric-powered bin wagons are on standby, as York Council have failed to build facilities to charge them in time for use. The council have been accused of hiding the new fleet, pictured in North Yorks, Jan 9 2023. See SWNS story SWLNwagon; Council chiefs have been accused of hiding a fleet of 25 new multi-million-pound electric-powered bin wagons - after they failed to build facilities to charge them in time. York Council put £8mil into a lengthy procurement project to replace their gas-guzzling diesel trucks, used for general litter collection, with more eco-friendly vehicles. But councillor Mark Warters, 58, labelled the project “farcical” and an “embarrassment” after it was revealed delays with charging infrastructure meant some couldn’t be used. And photos taken by a whistleblower showed the brand new electronic trucks, embossed with the City of York logo, sitting idle in a tarmacked storage yard.
The council have failed to build facilities to charge them in time for use, it is claimed (Picture: SWNS)

‘It’s always been accepted practice that those people take vehicles home with them. So they’re already questioning how that system would work,’ he added.

The council admitted construction of the charging points was behind schedule but claimed it had been wiser to buy the vehicles early due to rising inflation costs.

From...https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/10/councils-8000000-electric-bin-wagons-go-to-waste-18067852/

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  1. Anonymous24 January 2023 at 00:26

    Oh yes, very Conwy Council indeed, perhaps a former manager from Conwy Council went over to work there!

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