# BMW announces street lighting charging station technology

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/bmw-announces-street-lighting-charging-station-technology/4625>\
**Category:** BMW Electric Car Forum\
**Created:** [November 11, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/bmw-announces-street-lighting-charging-station-technology/4625 "2014-11-11T11:51:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Editor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/49beb7/32.png) [@Editor](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Editor)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/bmw-announces-street-lighting-charging-station-technology/4625/1 "2014-11-11T11:51:19Z")

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Only a few days ago we brought you news that there was a company working on the potential to use street lighting posts as charging stations for electric vehicles. The ground breaking idea seems to have caught the attention of other electric vehicle vendors with BMW set to run a pilot scheme in Munich next […]

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**Author:** ![EvForum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.electricforum.com/evforum/32/322_2.png) [@EvForum](https://community.electricforum.com/u/EvForum)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/bmw-announces-street-lighting-charging-station-technology/4625/2 "2014-11-11T16:31:17Z")

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BMW is not the first company to look at street lighting charging stations - this does seem the way forward?