PHONE BOOTHS GO CHARGING

Vienna…

Telekom Austria has announced plans to convert public phone booths into battery recharging stations for electric cars, scooters and motorbikes, and says it will have 30 such stations in operation by the end of this year. The company has already unveiled its first phone booth-turned-recharging station, installed in front of the company’s Vienna headquarters.

While there are currently only some 225 full-electric cars from a total of 4.36 million cars on Austria’s roads, the Austrian motor vehicle association, VOeC, predicts that the number of electric vehicles in the country will rise to 405,000 by 2020.

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