This is the kind of new street furniture we're likely to see arriving here over the next few years -- the roadside electric charging point.
This is one of a number which have just been installed in Holland, including at strategic locations such as Schipol International Airport, central Rotterdam, and outside Amsterdam’s Central Station railway hub, where it will charge the city’s new fleet of fully-electric, emissions-free Tuc Tuc taxi vehicles.
The unit’s socket is located under a secure, weather-proof door, accessed using a personalised electronic wireless key fob. The door locks shut when charging is in progress and can only be reopened using the same fob, preventing interference by a third party.
And if it looks familiar to just one or two of you, well, yes ... there are one or two on evaluation here in Ireland. Not quite sure where, but no doubt somebody will tell us.