Northumberland County Council has passed a motion to add 36 electric vehicle charging points at 26 locations, extending the public charging network the authority already operates.
Most of the new equipment will stand on land the council owns: 78 per cent of the additional posts are earmarked for council property, while the remainder will be installed on third-party land under licensing agreements.
The county runs along England's northeast coast to the Scottish border and takes in Hadrian's Wall and Northumberland National Park.
The build-out is being financed with just over £1 million of external funding from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement, which will back the rollout until 2029. Revenue generated by the chargers is to cover their running costs, management and maintenance rather than the capital works.
Installation and upkeep will be handled by the council's in-house EV team. Richard Wearmouth, the cabinet member with responsibility for transport, said it was good to see more investment in charging provision, and argued that with one of the largest road networks in the country the county needs the necessary facilities to help people get around.
The charging expansion follows other low-emission transport work in the region, after 14 BYD BD11 battery-electric buses entered service a few months earlier.