Electric vehicles

We are committed to improving air quality across Southampton. As part of this commitment, we are making improvements to the city's public electric vehicle (EV) charging network.

Eastgate Street Multistorey Car Park charging points unavailable

We apologise that the charging points at Eastgate Street MSCP are currently unavailable.

Charging points

Southampton City Council currently have 50 electric vehicle chargers with 73 sockets available across 19 locations around the city (parking charges may apply in some locations).

We have two operators for our charge point network.

• Park & Recharge: You do not need to download an app to use these chargers
• Shell Recharge: You need to download the app to use these chargers

Please read signage on the EV charger for details of which operator and payment methods to use.

Locations

Six standard charge points are available at the four city centre multi-story car parks below:

• West Park car park - ground floor
• Grosvenor Square car park - ground floor
• Bedford Place car park - level two
• Marlands car park - level three

All of these chargers use the Shell Recharge app.

There is also a fast charger with two sockets outside Grosvenor Square MSCP. For this charger use Park & Recharge.

North of East Park

Two fast chargers and two standard chargers, with five sockets available.

• Brunswick Place

All of these chargers use Park & Recharge.

Maybush

Two fast chargers with four sockets available.

• Potters Court

All of these chargers use Park & Recharge.

Southampton Central Station

One fast charger with two sockets available

• Southbrook Road South Car Park

For this charger use Park & Recharge.

Woolston

Three standard chargers and one fast charger in Colonnade car park, meaning there are eight sockets available across the area

• Woodley Road car park
• Victoria Road car park
• Oakbank Road car park
• The Colonnade car park

All of these chargers use Park & Recharge.

Bitterne

Four standard chargers and eight sockets available across the area

• Lances Hill
• West End Road Car Park
• Whites Road
• Pear Tree Gardens

All of these chargers use Park & Recharge.

Midanbury

Two slow chargers and two sockets available.

• Town Hill

All of these chargers use the Shell Recharge App.

Further information

We will be installing more chargers soon across the city, to help more people switch to electric vehicles. Keep an eye on this page to find out where more charging points are being installed.

Zap-Map can be used to find your nearest charging point in Southampton and elsewhere.

If you have questions about EVs and EV charging, please email electric.vehicles@southampton.gov.uk.