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How 400,000 Street Lights Could Solve Urban EV Charging

The Lamppost Revolution

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Syed Haseeb Hassan
July 25, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

🇳🇱 400,000 lampposts. 800,000 parking spots. One game changing idea.

What if the solution to urban EV charging chaos was literally standing right in front of us on every street corner?

Tomorrow I’m releasing an eye-opening interview with Heimen Visser from CityCharge.eu, a company turning ordinary lampposts into 22 kW AC chargers with double sockets, scalable across Europe.

⚡️ A few highlights to get you thinking:

  • 60% of Dutch residents don’t have driveways to charge at home

  • 800,000 parking spots in NL are already perfectly placed next to lampposts

  • Double socket 22 kW chargers are being embedded directly into the streetlights

  • The rollout has already started beyond NL into Germany, France & the UK

Living in a German apartment building, I know the struggle intimately. No driveway. No wallbox option. Just endless hunting for available public chargers and the constant range anxiety that comes with it.

What's the biggest EV charging pain point in your city? Drop a comment below! 👇

🎥 Full interview drops tomorrow: 📺 YouTube | 🌐 Website | 🎧 Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music

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That's it for today. If you found this useful, or have other examples from your own driving or data analysis, I'd love to hear them. And if you want more of these grounded, real-world takes on EV infrastructure, charging, and pricing, make sure to follow me, and subscribe to my newsletter and also my YouTube channel.

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