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How Much Range You Really Need in an Electric Car

Stop trying to re-create your gas engine car from electricity and the answer will become clear. If you’re considering an electric vehicle, don’t make the mistake of buying one with too much range. Unlike combustion engine cars with virtually unlimited range, electric cars make the most sense when they have the right amount of range, not a

Ubitricity Electric Avenue project lamppost charging (Image: Siemens)

Wandsworth Council EV charger rollout progresses with Liberty Charge installs

On-street electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints are being rolled out across Wandsworth, with 35 sites set to see installations. Wandsworth Council began the rollout of the infrastructure in 2021 across 26 sites, with 10 already live. The latest installations will take the total number of sites to 35, comprising 65 dual socket EV chargepoints able to

Ecotricity app display after ending session (Image: T. Larkum)

InstaVolt sets sights on 1,000 rapid charger milestone by summer

InstaVolt is planning to reach a 1,000 rapid charger milestone in the UK this summer, with its 700th set to be in operation later this month.   Of the remaining 300 needed to reach their milestone, InstaVolt said they had 200 already in construction with new sites in development in partnership with McDonald’s, KFC, Costa Coffee and EH Booths.

This is for slow charges (Image: T. Heale)

The electric cars that could boil your kettle for days during storm power cuts: Hyundai and Kia EVs can turn battery packs into mobile charging stations

With much of the UK today being battered by Storm Eunice, sparking the strongest wind on record in the south to massive snowfall in the north, a number of households are already experiencing power cuts, with more predicted for the weekend. For those suffering this unfortunately consequence, if they have one of the latest Korean

SWARCO eVolt is supplying 45 charging units, including 11 of its Rapid Chargers capable of charging two vehicles simultaneously in 30 minutes, across 28 sites in East Lothian (Image: eVolt)

How much does it cost to charge an electric car? Running costs of EVs and how to find a charging point

One of the major draws of switching to an EV is the chance to avoid the petrol pump – here’s how much you could save Growing numbers of us are switching to electric cars – in fact the latest UK sales data suggests sales of electric cars doubled last year. One of the major draws of

Topping up at Tiverton (Image: T. Larkum)

Electric vehicles bring down CO2 emissions of new cars in UK to lowest level ever

Though only 12% of new sales were zero-exhaust electric vehicles, emissions fell by 11.2% in 2021   The carbon dioxide emissions of new cars sold in the UK dropped to the lowest level ever in 2021 thanks to the unprecedented surge in electric vehicle sales, industry data suggests. Average new car CO2 emissions fell by 11.2%, to