Volvo Energy and Connected Energy to explore second life for EV batteries
Volvo Energy has signed an agreement with Connected Energy to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) with batteries from Volvo vehicles once they...
Reading FC installs InstaVolt rapid EV chargers
Reading Football Club has activated eight ultra-rapid EV chargers from InstaVolt at its Select Car Leasing Stadium.
The ultra-rapid EV charging hub, which is located...
Raw installs EV Chargers at Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa
Raw Charging has activated new EV chargers at Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa, the site where the England rugby team train.
The facility in Bagshot,...
DAF LF Electric for Reynolds Catering
The 19-tonne GVW LF Electric is powered by an electric motor developing 250kW nominal power and nominal torque of 1,200Nm. DAF’s latest cobalt- and...
Brum, brum: Birmingham colleges gets £1.2m to spark up new automotive battery skills
A £1.2 million grant from public sector tech angels Innovate UK has left University College Birmingham leading a West Midlands partnership, aimed at delivering...
Welch’s gets Renault Trucks electric HGV
Cambridgeshire-based family business, Welch’s Transport, has taken delivery of a Renault Trucks E-Tech D Wide 4x2 curtainside rigid, the first fully electric HGV on...
Osprey opens rapid EV charging site in Barnsley
Osprey Charging has installed three high-powered EV chargers at the Wombwell Lane Retail Park in Barnsley, designed to be used by local residents, businesses...
Wandsworth increases EV charging infrastructure
Wandsworth Council has begun the rollout of 525 new 5kW lamppost EV charging points across the borough with power supply coming from zero carbon...
Pellet plug-in: Drax buys EV charger installer BMM
BMM have been Drax’s primary partner for EV charger installations since 2018. Together the companies have electrified the fleets of such organisations as FI...
Raw continues speedy Greene King EV charging rollout
RAW Charging has installed EV chargers at over 50 Greene King Sites since March 2023 – one of the fastest rollouts in the hospitality...
JCB retrofits hydrogen engine in Mercedes van
JCB has installed its hydrogen engine technology into a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van as part of a project to prove the wider appeal of the...
Elmbridge installs 25 new EV charge points
Elmbridge residents and workers are to benefit from the installation of 25 new EV charge points across eight separate, council-owned locations in the area.
The...
EDF and DriveElectric offer EV salary sacrifice scheme
EDF has launched an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme through EV leasing company DriveElectric for its SME business customers.
DriveElectric says its salary sacrifice means...
Boughey Distribution gets its first electric truck
Nantwich, Cheshire-based Boughey Distribution has taken delivery of its first electric vehicle, a Volvo FE Electric, following a successful three-month trial of the model...
“Compel 100% accessibility for public EV chargepoints”: campaigners
All EV chargers available to the public should be easily usable by people with disabilities, and as of right, campaigners for disabled drivers are...
Gloucestershire to begin rollout of EV charging points
Gloucestershire County Council is to begin the first phase of its scheme to install 1,000 public EV charging points over the next three years.
Work...
JLR creates new renewable energy storage from used car batteries
The batteries will be stored in containers installed at three locations across the Wykes-owned Chelveston renewable energy park in Northamptonshire, and JLR aims to...
CATL battery to offer 249-mile range with 10-minute charge
China-based battery manufacturer CATL has revealed details about its EV battery, capable of delivering 249 miles of driving range with a 10-minute charge.
Shenxing, which...
Yutong GTe14 tri-axle electric coach set for UK launch
The first Yutong GTe14 tri-axle battery-electric coaches are set to make their UK debut in the first quarter of 2024.
Marketed by Pelican Engineering, the...
The Harrogate Bus Company orders 39 electric buses
The Harrogate Bus Company has placed orders worth £21 million for 39 new buses supported by £7.8 million of funding from the Government’s Zero...