There are concerns that Filey doesn't have enough Electric Vehicle charging points to cope with this summers influx of tourists.
A £450,000 project is underway to install 48 charging points in Scarborough Borough Council car parks, but only 3 of those will be in Filey.
The EV-charging points will be located across 18 council car parks with 27 charge points in Scarborough, 12 in Whitby, three in Filey, and two each in Robin Hood’s Bay, Staithes and Runswick Bay.
The project go the go-ahead last October and is the biggest roll out of electric vehicle chargers anywhere in North Yorkshire.
While welcoming the additional three chargers Filey's Borough Councillor - Sam Cross - is concerned that it's still not enough.
Across the borough the charge points will be a mixture of 7kW and 22kW to provide flexibility in terms of capacity and therefore speed of charging, but the three charging points for Filey are understood to be the slower 7kW units, with all three being installed at Station Avenue. Each charger can power two vehicles at once.
But with demand for EV charging bays increasing, Filey Town Councillor Karen Hubbard thinks the three new spaces will have to be actively managed.
The chargers will be installed and maintained by the council’s project partner Connected Kerb which has a similar scheme up and running in the Ryedale district.
Figures from Department of Transport show there were 400 pure electric or hybrid vehicles registered in the borough at the end of 2021.
There were a total of 65,714 registered vehicles overall, but the figure for zero or low emission cars increased by more than 200 compared to the year before.
Expert predictions suggest there will be more than 8,000 plug-in vehicles in the borough by 2030 when the ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol engines comes into force.
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