Steven Chu: Lithium metal sulphur batteries will make EVs cheap
Steven Chu, the former United States Secretary of Energy, and co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics, believes lithium metal sulphur batteries will...
Kaluza: electric vehicles can displace large-scale battery storage
Conor Maher-McWilliams, head of flexibility at Kaluza, believes domestic flexibility could be bigger than the business-to-business market, “based on the fact that we are...
Vattenfall signs EV charger roaming agreement with Shell’s New Motion
Vattenfall and New Motion have signed a roaming agreement that provides open access to 400 UK public electric vehicle (EV) chargers via a single...
Mitsubishi takes 20 per cent stake in Ovo, plots vehicle to grid and smart...
Mitsubishi Corporation has acquired a 20% stake in UK independent energy supplier Ovo. The Japanese conglomerate will pay £216m.
Ovo said it will use the...
EVs: Engenie and Gridserve push on with charging network plans
Electric vehicle charging company Engenie will install 12 rapid (50kW) chargers in Cardiff as the city aims to reduce air pollution. Cardiff Council has...
Businesses outline incentives needed to boost EV infrastructure
The Energyst asked businesses what incentives or policies would help them switch to electric vehicles and install charging infrastructure. Here is a selection of...
Centrica strikes electric vehicle deal with Ford
Centrica has struck a deal with Ford to install electric vehicle charging infrastructure to its customers and dealerships. The energy supplier hopes Ford’s customers...
Planning permission granted for Oxford 50MW lithium-vanadium hybrid battery
Planning permission has been approved for the key substation site proposed for the Energy Superhub project in Oxford.
Flow storage company RedT said it enables...
Delivering Net Zero: Ford and Jaguar Land Rover sign up
Ford and Jaguar Land Rover have signed up as sponsors of The Energyst’s Delivering Net Zero conference and exhibition, 22-23 April, Silverstone.
Attendees will be...
BP Chargemaster to install 200 rapid EV chargers at Mitchells & Butlers pubs
BP Chargemaster has signed a deal to install up to 200 rapid electric vehicle chargers at Mitchells & Butlers pubs and restaurants, with 50...
Gridserve starts work on first 350kW EV charging hub
Gridserve has started work on its first electric vehicle charging forecourt near Braintree in Essex.
The hub, akin to a motorway service station with retail...
Engenie lands £35m Cube investment, plans 2,000 rapid EV chargers
Engenie has secured £35m in backing from infrastructure investor Cube. The company will use the funds to rollout 2,000 rapid electric vehicle chargers over...
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...
Energyst’s Delivering Net Zero events pushed back to 26-27 May 2021
The Energyst’s energy and electric vehicle events will now take place 26 -27 May 2021 at Silverstone.
The ‘Delivering Net Zero | Heat | Power...
Engie acquires electric vehicle charging firm Charge Point Services
French-owned utility Engie has acquired electric vehicle charging provider Charge Point Services (CPS), which owns the Genie Point nationwide EV charging network.Â
The charging company's...
First EVs arrive for Oxford ‘superhub’ smart grid project
Oxford City Council has taken delivery of the first of 33 electric vehicles that will form part of its major smart grid project.
The 'suberhub'...
UPS steps up smart grid approach to e-vans
Delivery firm UPS will use Moixa's smart grid platform to manage charging of 65 electric vans at its Camden depot.
UPS has been working with...
Vehicle-to-grid study suggests £400 annual revenue per electric vehicle
A UK study into the income potential of using electric vehicles to balance the grid suggests around £400 per annum may be the upper...
Electric vehicles: Define ‘smart’ charging, urge DNOs
UK Power Networks and Northern Powergrid on the need to define what smart charging actually means, greater low voltage network visibility and how businesses...
‘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...