A new government fund is to help pay for connection costs to enable the installation of high-powered charging (HPC) at motorway sites across England. The Rapid Charging Fund – which was first announced in the 2020 Budget – will be available to fund a portion of costs at strategic sites where upgrading connections to meet
The Gloucestershire Constabulary is putting the country’s largest police fleet of electric cars to new tactical use. On Twitter, they described their latest ops against illegal poachers with the electric vehicles being central to their strategy. To catch unwanted hunters, the police on Gloucestershire tweeted that the officers lay waiting in “unmarked electric cars patrolling
There were 111,000 fewer diesel cars in the UK in 2019 than the year before as people switched from polluting vehicles to greener ones The UK has reached a motoring milestone, passing ‘peak diesel’ as the number of diesel cars on the roads fell for the first time in at least 25 years. There were
Interesting times in the electric vehicle market, as more and more carmakers try to position themselves in what looks like a second phase of growth. In the luxury market segment, the announced launch of Tesla’s Cybertruck has galvanized a market that, in the United States, buys two million vehicles each year. What at first looked
Asda has rolled out a fleet of electric vehicle in a bid to boost its online delivery capacity, amid the increasing demand on online services due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Used in 48 stores The new fleet of electric vehicles will be used to ferry orders from stores to click-and collect points, freeing up
Total carbon emissions in the UK will be cut by almost 12 per cent if the country exclusively uses electric cars in future, a new study shows. Research by Nottingham Trent University shows that 42 million tons of CO2 (MtCO2) will be removed from the atmosphere in the UK – a reduction of 11.89 per
So you’ve been thinking about making the switch to an electric car, but you’re still unsure whether the time is quite right. After all, the Government keeps on providing fiscal incentives to go electric, while seemingly clobbering drivers of petrol and diesel cars with taxes, so the financial case is already strong. The thing is,
Will the pandemic set back the work of the last 5 years another 20 years? The global economy is facing an unprecedented downturn due to Covid-19. All major researchers and banks are forecasting global GDP drops, and the IMF is predicting the worst recession since the Great Depression. Global stock market performance indicators by sector
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) outsold all fuel types except petrol cars in April 2020 as the new car market saw sales plummet -97.3%. Only 4,321 new cars were registered in April, according to new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), coming in a 156,743 less than the same month a year
Renault Zoe GT Line review: Electric vehicle perfect for essential journeys
Mirror Motoring’s Colin Goodwin has found the Renault Zoe electric vehicle the perfect runner in lockdown to go and visit his mum and – with no off-street parking – found it easy to charge up away from home There’s only one essential journey that I have to make and that’s to care for my 94-year-old
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