Recycling telecoms infrastructure for EVs

Does your street have one of these? There’s a slightly smaller version about twenty metres down the street from me, and I found five on a quick walk around the block.

They’re telecoms cabinets, and if you live in Britain, there’s a very good chance there’s one nearby. BT has 90,000 of them scattered around the country, and they contain the connection points for home phone lines and broadband.

They’re a critical part of telecommunications infrastructure – or at least they have been. A...