Liverpool City Region’s (LCR) drive towards creating an eco-friendly environment is being helped by APT Controls, which has completed the installation of 28 of its Evolt Electric Vehicle (EV) charge points. Merseytravel, the executive body that provides professional, strategic and operational transport advice to the LCR’s Combined Authority, and the body responsible for coordinating bids
Motorway service area signs will now show where electric vehicle drivers are able to recharge batteries. Ecotricity logos will now appear on Roadchef signs from this week, alongside signs from the likes of WH Smith, McDonalds and Costa. The first Ecotricity sign appeared at Roadchef’s Sedgemoor services on Tuesday 26 January, with additional signs to
Have your charging questions answered in THE FOOLPROOF GUIDE TO ELECTRIC DRIVING. This time we explore the truth about charging – like how to do it, how long it takes and how far you can go on one charge. Charging a Nissan LEAF is simple. Plug it in at home, or on the go.. Rapid
MILTON Keynes has been named as one of several UK cities to receive funds worth millions of pounds to promote electric cars. £9million has been allocated to MK to construct a Electric Vehicle Experience Centre that promotes electric cars and can arrange short-term loans. Funds will also be used to make the city’s 20,000 parking spaces
From street lights that charge your car to ULEV-only spaces, the UK is about to get even more EV-friendly [From 26 January] Figures show low-emission transport in the UK is already on the rise, but the government has given it a £40 million helping hand. Yesterday, the transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced cities including Nottingham,
ONE HUNDRED new charging points will be created in residential streets in Oxford to make electric vehicle ownership possible for 16,000 extra homes. The largest pilot of its kind in the world will begin when 30 trial points of various kinds are installed in pavements and lampposts by the end of this year. The most
Here you can see how wireless electric car charging works and the benefits of wireless charging. When this new technology is rolled out to the masses it will change everything with regards to the way people feel about having to charge an electric car.
Evolt has recorded a record year for its Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging business – 12 months that has seen a significant increase in sales and market share in an increasingly competitive commercial charging landscape. The company, which began installing some of its first single commercial chargers more than five years ago, has since grown to become
DRIVERS of electric cars will be able to charge their vehicles at hospitals in Derbyshire in an award-winning low-carbon travel initiative. Charging points have been switched on at community hospitals across the county this week. The move is part of a wider initiative by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust to reduce the environmental
Renault ZOE Charging Curve (2.3kW ‘Granny’ Cable)
Soon after I bought our Type 2 ‘granny’ cable I did some testing to see how long it would take to charge the ZOE (when set to 10 Amps, about 2.3kW). Previously I’ve done some detailed monitoring of charge curves, specifically for 7kW home charging and 43kW rapid charging. Given that I knew this method
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