Pivot Power’s maiden 50MW battery and electric vehicle charging hub could be set for Southampton after the first planning documents appeared for the company’s proposed 2GW nationwide network. But despite presenting the plans to the market last month as a combined energy storage and EV solution to accelerate the take-up of low carbon transport, the
Milton Keynes has delivered the first charging point under the council’s ‘MK Promise’, which sets out to provide overnight electric vehicle (EV) charging within a short walk of a new EV owner without off-street parking facilities. The Chargemaster Fastcharge unit has been installed at Wavendon House, a 17th-century Grade II-listed former outpost of Bletchley Park,
New technologies to create safer, high-powered electric car batteries have been supported by £22 million of industrial strategy funding. A new pioneering technology to ensure a next generation of safer, high-powered electric car batteries can be charged by drivers in ultra-fast time is just one of 12 innovation projects to receive the green light from
Octopus Energy has launched a new “time of use” energy tariff especially designed for bringing down the charging cost for electric vehicle (EV) owners. The new tariff, called Octopus Energy Go, lets EV owners charge their cars for only 5p per kilowatt hour for four hours each night, which could make owning an EV 10
OXFORD is set to lead the world into a petrol-less future. Electric vehicle charging points are being installed across the city this month and how motorists use them will be reported to the Government by Oxford University. The trial, already thought to be the largest on-street charging pilot in the world, could see drivers in
National Grid has moved to dispel various misconceptions over its projections for extra power demand triggered by an electric vehicle revolution in the UK. Earlier this summer the UK government pledged to ban the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040, promoting a wider switch to hybrid and pure
Electric Car Charging Networks 2: Chargemaster’s Polar Network
This is the second part of an occasional series covering national charging networks (the first was Ecotricity’s Electric Highway). POLAR Network (including Charge Your Car and Source East) Websites: POLAR Plus, POLAR Instant Operated by: Chargemaster PLC Online Maps: POLAR Plus, POLAR Instant Smartphone App: POLAR Instant Operator’s Description “We run POLAR, the UK’s biggest
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