Welcome to Tesla Town

Less than six months after Australia received its first shipment of Tesla Powerwalls, plans for what could be the world’s first “Tesla town” – a mini-suburb on the outskirts of the Melbourne CBD whose new-build homes will include rooftop solar and Tesla battery storage as standard design features – are being unveiled by local property

Renault ZOE Arrives in the UK with 250 Mile Range

ZOE now offers best range of any mainstream electric vehicle New Z.E.40 battery provides 250 miles (NEDC) of driving on a single charge New top-of-the-range Signature Nav trim level  Model Year 2017 ZOE receives upgrades to interior and exterior specification Z.E.40 battery added to ZOE line-up alongside existing 22kW battery ZOE was Europe’s best-selling electric

Tesla Model 3 (Image: Green Car Reports)

One in six new vehicles will need to be electric to meet global standards in 2020

Having one out of every six new vehicles be of the battery-electric variety? Heck, that’s California’s Silicon Valley in a nutshell, and that’s only if you count Teslas. But the rest of the world will have to catch up in order to meet greenhouse-gas emissions standards set by the world’s largest governments. That’s what Green

National Grid wants the batteries to help it cope with the challenges of more wind and solar power (Image: PA)

New batteries to help Britain keep the lights on

Eight new battery storage projects are to be built around the UK after winning contracts worth £66m to help National Grid keep power supplies stable as more wind and solar farms are built. EDF Energy, E.On and Vattenfall were among the successful companies chosen to build new lithium-ion batteries with a combined capacity of 200