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  Electricity running through the charge stations will be 100 per cent renewable energy from solar.

A new phase of electric charging is about to hit Sydney.

Australia's first public electric vehicle charging station was installed in Derby Place, Glebe last year.

It charges a plug-in Prius operated by GoGet car share, and is used by more than 500 residents and businesses in Glebe. The newest phase to hit Sydney is creating quite a buzz. Electric cars are the way of the future. 

The City of Sydney will soon go to tender for up to 12 new electric car charging stations which will be installed across Sydney next year to help more Sydneysiders plug-in and power-up clean, green vehicles.

"Electric cars are the way of the future and will help Council reduce CO2 emissions from its vehicles by 20 per cent by 2014," said Lord Mayor Clover Moore. "We're already trialling two of the first production electric cars available in Australia, recharged by electricity from 240 solar panels on the roof of Sydney Town Hall.

"Council vehicles used for site inspections will be replaced with up to 50 zero emission electric cars over the next few years and were encouraging business and residents to do likewise."

The new publicly accessible charge points will be located in the Kings Cross parking station, Goulburn Street parking station and as well as two street-level carparks on Cope Street in Redfern and Wilson Street Newtown. Each electric car charging station will be available to all drivers simply by pulling in and plugging their electric vehicles into a socket.

Electricity running through the charge stations will be 100 per cent renewable energy from solar, wind or hydro. But electric cars aren't altogether new to Sydney. Council's connection with electric garbage trucks and vehicles dates back to the early 1900s.

"It's hard to believe electric cars were so incredibly popular in the early 1900s but disappeared when petrol vehicles came along and people wanted to travel greater distances and were basically ignorant of the adverse impacts effect on the planet," the Lord Mayor said.

"So now, in effect, we're turning back the clock as electric cars make a comeback."