CTS Hire adds electric bin lorries to fleet
CTS Hire has added two new all-electric Renault Trucks 26-tonne refuse collection vehicles (eRCV’s) to its rental fleet.
Dealer RH Commercial Vehicles supplied CTS Hire...
Volta Trucks reveals EV maintenance facility
Volta Trucks, the full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer has confirmed the details of its first UK maintenance facility, to service the battery electric Zero vehicles...
Toyota Corolla Commercial hybrid electric vehicles for Readypower
The new vehicles, which enter service this month, will be used by the company’s engineers to support clients across the country.
Corolla Commercial is built...
Equipmake-powered electric bus for Buenos Aires
A new electric bus powered by Norfolk-based Equipmake is to begin in-service trials on the streets of Buenos Aires following successful tests.
Working with Argentine-Brazilian...
SSE to bring EV charging to 20 retail parks across UK
SSE Energy Solutions has signed a partnership agreement to bring its EV charging hub programme to 20 retail parks across the UK over the...
Evios acquires Andersen EV charging business
British home electric vehicle charge point manufacturer, Evios, has acquired the prestige home charging business Andersen EV.
The management of Evios says the two brands...
New EV public charging points for North Wales
Denbighshire County Council is to begin work on the installation of 15 public electric vehicle charging points at car parks in towns across North...
Osprey announces EV driver price reduction to 79p per kWh
Osprey Charging has announced that it is reducing its prices for EV drivers to 79p per kilowatt hour across its nationwide network.
Effective from 1...
More on-street EV chargers for North Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire Council is planning to install about 80 new on-street vehicle EV charging points for use from early 2023.
These new chargers, which will...
Gridserve installs 360kW EV charger in Braintree
Gridserve has installed a 360kW charger at its Braintree Electric Forecourt, able to add 100 miles to an EV in less than five minutes.
The...
BP’s profits soar to $ 8.2bn in third quarter
Oil and gas supermajor BP beat analysts’ predictions for the year’s third quarter, this morning announcing profits of £ 7.1 billion/ $ 8.2 billion,...
Government ‘won’t achieve Net Zero by 2050’, slim majority tell British Gas’ new Net...
Just over half of UK adults - 54% - lack confidence that that the government can cut emissions to reach Net Zero by 2050....
JustCharge and Zap-Map partnership for EV drivers to share home charger
Community EV charging network JustCharge has announced a new partnership that offers Zap-Map users the ability to find and book its chargers directly through...
StoreDot: EVs powered by all solid state batteries ten years away from mass production
Solid-state-batteries are cost-effective fast and safe charging batteries, with high energy densities, however, according to the company, they remain a work in progress, and...
Less than half of commuter car parks have EV charging, report finds
Only 44 per cent of Britain’s busiest park’n’ride and commuter car parks have any equipment installed to charge electric vehicles, a new survey claims.
Of...
EV drivers at DPD to use First Bus rapid charging hub
First Bus has signed an agreement to give van drivers from delivery firm DPD access to the EV chargers at its Caledonia Depot site...
First big lithium refinery outside Asia announced for Teesside
Business secretary Grant Shapps today delighted Britain’s battery makers and EV chargers, travelling to Teesside to announce plans for Europe’s first ever large-scale refinery...
Northgate partners with Monta
As a result of the agreement, rental customers with an EV rental package of between 12 and 60 months who take a charger package...
Modern Fleet Q&A – Alex Hinchcliffe, Director of Public Charging at Mer UK
Favourite holiday destination?
Without a doubt, Sydney. I lived there for 10 years and have a strange parallel life with a set of friends that...
Drive to electric gathers pace
New data released shows that the number of drivers planning to make the switch to electric has jumped in the last year
A study for...