Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. A full 10 years ago, on a cleantech tour in Germany, I and a handful of other journalists met with German startup ubitricity. The company had a dream – widespread charging access via light poles. The company wanted to install its charging technology in streetlights so that city dwellers without their own garage or dedicated parking spot with access to electricity could easily charge their electric cars. In an EV infrastructure shopping spree, Shell (the oil giant) acquired ubitricity, and the dream is alive, with expansion in the UK and parts of Europe. However, EV charging via streetlights hasn’t (yet) taken the world by storm. Will it?