The Herald caught up with Ms Barbir at Jugiong, where Hilltops Council has a station.

Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council's February meeting on Tuesday night was told the council should get on the front foot of the change that's coming and look seriously at installing an electric vehicle charger in the town.

Councillor Charlie Sheahan said he was "a little bit disappointed" that a report on energy efficiency council asked the general manager to prepare in July last year had not given more affirmative action.

"But it's good to hear that the council is inviting quotes for solar panels on the administrative centre, and the report is good in that it lays down the grounding for future action."

Cr Sheahan said he believed an NRMA charger was going in at Gundagai, and there was already one at Jugiong which he said was busy every time he visited the town.

"The technology is like mobile phones," he said. "When they first came out it was like we were carrying a car battery around with us, now there's this little thing in your hand that's a powerful computer.

"I could see that installing one or two chargers in our town would attract the people who drive electric vehicles and would also be an incentive within our own community for people to buy electric vehicles."

Crs Graham and Kelly pointed out that the electricity used by the charging stations currently came from coal-fired power stations.

"It's virtue signalling," Cr Kelly said. "You're never going to get solar panels or wind to charge these electric vehicles properly, I'm sick of talking about it."

When the Herald went to Jugiong on Wednesday evening, the car at the station was an NRMA car, a Hyundai Kona, whose driver was dining at the Sir George on her way back from Albury to her home at Wollongong.

Suzana Barbir, manager of the NRMA's EV division, was happy to talk about her organisation's advocacy of electric cars, and how NRMA was pushing for city drivers to feel comfortable about driving in the country.

Ms Barbir said NRMA had invited expressions of interest from councils for 40 chargers to be installed, and the Jugiong site proposed by Hilltops Council had been allocated.

All 40 stations in the program had been allocated, but if Cootamundra-Gundagai council was prepared to contribute to installing a station in Coota, NRMA would maintain it and put it on its network.

The energy efficiency report said council had started a program to change the street lighting and awnings to LEDs, would improve the efficiencies of new buildings, and would look at installing solar panels at the Aquatic Centre and increase the efficiency of pumps pumping recycled water to sports grounds and parks.