Integrated EV charging and energy storage from Swarco and Connected Energy

Swarco Smart Charging and Connected Energy have partnered to develop a combined battery storage and EV charging solution that could help accelerate the rollout...

EV drivers “seven times more likely” to have home solar installed

Solar installers have always sensed the link between EV drivers and a solar array on their homes' roofs. Now power retailers Good Energy and...

Cumbria to install 900 new EV charge points

Cumbria is set to install up to 900 new EV charge points after receiving £1.4m in funding from the Department for Transport’s Local Electric...

Liberty Charge to offer free installation of electric vehicle charge points to business

Liberty Charge, an electric vehicle charge point operator (CPO) is taking its experience within local authorities and launching its zero-cost installation charge point solution...

Hydrogen genset firm GeoPura expands with £36m from GM & friends

Hydrogen-fuelled power makers GeoPura have secured £36 million in growth funds from heavyweight investors including Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and the venture capital arm...

EB Charging to install 46 EV charge points in Norwich

EB Charging has won the contract to install, supply and operate 46 new EV charge points on 40 streets across Norwich. As part of the...

EV100 fleets now running 400,000 electric vehicles

EV100 fleets are now running more than 400,000 EVs worldwide, a new report shows. The total reported number of EVs put on the road by...

New storage systems to support ultra-rapid charging on motorways

National Highways has invested £8m in new high-powered charging infrastructure that will support ultra-rapid chargers on England’s motorways where the grid supply is not...

Q&A: Zak Houlahan CEO of Enerveo

 Favourite holiday destination? Port Portals in Majorca – I love the mix of the climate, people, lifestyle, food and the wine and catching up with...

A look at the DS electric range of cars

Combustion engines are on the way out; electric vehicles (EVs) are the future. With the government banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars...

Wrightbus to build hydrogen production facility

Wrightbus plans to build a green hydrogen production facility at its headquarters in Ballymena that will initially produce enough clean energy to power 300...

XPO converts 50% of car fleet to plug-in models

Of the 177 vehicles in the fleet, 103 (58%) are now either hybrid or full EVs. The company expects to have 100% of the fleet...

Brakes gets first DAF LF Electric

National foodservice supplier Brakes has taken delivery of its first zero-emissions DAF LF Electric to work on multi-temperature operations at its Reading depot. The 19-tonne...

Yorkshire Water to install 1,000 EV charging points

Yorkshire Water plans to install up to 1,000 EV charging points across its sites and employees’ homes, as the company strengthens its electric fleet...

Wattif enters EV charging sector in UK

Wattif installed its first UK charging points in Cambridge in late 2022, which will be followed by sites in Leeds, and then Scotland. The company,...

Zest opens EV charging site at Metrocentre

Zest has installed 56 EV charging sockets at Metrocentre in Newcastle, the country’s second largest retail and leisure destination. The EV charge points are spread...

VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide

Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide. The...

Sky acquires 11 Mercedes-Benz eVito electric vans

Sky has acquired 11 new Mercedes-Benz eVito electric panel vans which will be used by its engineers to service TV and broadband customers across...

Gridserve installs 32 new chargers

Gridserve has opened four new charging hubs with 32 new high-power chargers since the beginning of 2023 as it continues to expand its network. A...

InstaVolt to upgrade EV charging network

InstaVolt is to upgrade more than 200 of its existing 50kW chargers to 125kW outputs, significantly reducing charging times. The work on the ChargePoint CPE250...