Motorists in the western Sydney city of Blacktown will be the first in Australia to drive electric cars to smart poles and charge them up as the local council prepares to sign off on a $30,000 licensing deal.

Blacktown City Council, which represents 350,000 people, is expected to finalise an agreement with infrastructure group ENE-HUB within weeks and start installing 10 smart poles with charging points on local streets as well as in car parks and shopping centres.

Electric vehicle drivers will be able to charge their cars for free at the poles - which will also provide Wi-Fi and LED street lighting - for three years, but will then be asked to pay. The poles are expected to be ready for charging within six months.

Blacktown mayor Stephen Bali says more charging stations will encourage more electric cars Gary Warrick

Blacktown mayor Stephen Bali said he encouraged other councils to install the poles.

"Part of the resistance to using electric cars is that you can't charge them easily, there aren't many places to charge them...if you were to have those throughout the city, you'd have more people saying 'I can drive an electric car.'"