Adelaide City Council

Adelaide City Council has combined green energy with new technology for the city's environmentally savvy shoppers.

Together with the State Government, Council has installed an electric vehicle charging station at the Central Market car park that is supplied by locally generated low-emission electricity.

Adelaide Lord Mayor, Stephen Yarwood, says in what is believed to be a world first, the public charging station is powered by an innovative Australian-developed fuel cell.

This enables city shoppers to recharge their electric vehicles from low emission sources rather than carbon intensive power from the electricity grid.

The new station is free to users and can charge two vehicles at a time.

"This initiative reinforces the City of Adelaide's role as a leader in environmental sustainability and new technology," Stephen says.

"This project is a sign of things to come as we move towards a cleaner and greener future for our beautiful city."

The ChargePoint recharging station's BlueGen ceramic fuel cell will be able to generate at least 12,500 kilowatt hours of clean electricity each year. Excess power not required for vehicle recharging will be fed into the grid.

This is enough to power to the average South Australian home and two electric cars travelling 15,000 kilometres each per year.