Nottingham to tender for battery and 40 vehicle-to-grid chargers

Nottingham City Council will launch tenders for battery storage and bi-directional electric vehicle chargers in the next few weeks. The authority is one of four...

EV charging companies must collaborate to avoid walled gardens

Electric vehicle charging companies must develop common systems to avoid EV drivers having to juggle multiple apps and to enable electric vehicles to help...

Business energy supplier Yü gets into EV infrastructure

Yü Energy aims to sell electric vehicle chargers as well as energy to business customers. The company said it will bundle installation, electricity supply and...

Legal & General acquires stake in EV charging firm Pod Point

Legal & General has acquired a 13 per cent stake in electric vehicle charge point operator Pod Point. The EV charging firm recently struck a...

EVs: Honda to electrify European models and launch energy management business

Honda has announced plans to ensure its entire range of European models are electrified by 2025, though it will still make hybrids. It also plans...

EVs: Good Energy buys Zap-Map stake

Good Energy has taken a 12.9 per cent stake in Zap-Map with an option to buy the company in two years. The move is strategic,...

EVs, smart charging, V2G: Free conference, 9 April

Public and private sector organisations considering deploying electric vehicles (EV) charging infrastructure and/or switching fleets to battery-powered cars are invited to The Energyst's EV...

Decarbonising transport: Devolve money and power to local authorities

Decarbonising transport requires an integrated, multi modal approach, with more freight shifted to rail and government taking palpable action to sort out public transport....

Jaguar Land Rover installs 166 smart EV chargers

Jaguar Land Rover has installed 166 electric vehicle chargers at its Gaydon engineering centre. The company is using 7kW smart charging stations from Shell-owned NewMotion....

EVs: Car parks sought for solar and storage vehicle-to-grid trial

An InnovateUK-funded project to demonstrate how electric vehicles could play a role in stabilising the UK power system seeks six trial sites. The project will...

WPD outlines EV numbers it can handle, costs and payments for flex

Western Power Distribution's EV strategy details what its network can handle, costs of connections and upgrades - and some interesting plans to pay customers...

Superchargers: Why the chicken crossed the road

Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure is the chicken and egg of our times. Without the charging infrastructure, range anxiety persists, dampening uptake. Without the...
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Oxford goes large on hybrid storage, EVs and heat pumps

Oxford City Council has received government funding to build what it terms a ‘Superhub’ - a massive lithium ion-flow storage hybrid that underpins a...

Free report: EVs, smart charging and vehicle-to-grid

Businesses surveyed by The Energyst have significant appetite for electric vehicle (EV) chargers. Our latest report details their deployment plans, whether they have sufficient power...

EVs: How UPS is driving down emissions

UPS outlines what it has learned from deploying electric vans in central London – and why smart charging could be key to electrifying transport....

Vehicle-to-grid: Are we nearly there yet?

In its most recent Future Energy Scenarios, National Grid predicts up to 11m EVs on UK roads by 2030, and as many as 36m...

‘EV charging will be like Wifi: People will go elsewhere if you don’t have...

The tipping point is coming, say electric vehicle (EV) charging point companies, fossil majors and would-be disruptors building charging networks. “Within five years, EV charging...

SES Water starts electric van trial with eye on vehicle-to-grid

SES Water has decarbonised its power consumption, the next challenge is its transport emissions. The firm is trialling 10 electric vans with a view...

Mitie: Getting hold of electric vehicles a major challenge

Mitie has ambitious plans to convert its fleet to electric vehicles. But getting hold of the vehicles is no mean feat. Mitie plans to switch...

Free vehicle-to-grid chargers: Businesses sought for EV trial

Businesses with electric vehicle fleets are sought for a London vehicle-to-grid trial. Firms within the M25 with compatible vehicles (Nissan Leaf, Nissan e-NV200 or Mitsubishi...