California, New York, and New Jersey’s new efforts could boost EVs beyond niche status Three US states announced major investments in charging infrastructure for electric cars on Thursday. In total, California, New York, and New Jersey will put $1.3 billion on the table in the coming years to help chip away at one of the […]
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Milk & More, Britain’s largest milk delivery service is rolling out its quietest and most environmentally friendly milk delivery vehicles to date, following its purchase of 200 electric Work L40 StreetScooters. The £6.5 million investment in the StreetScooters is part of a strategy to secure the future of the much-loved British milkman. The new fleet
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Volkswagen and car-sharing company Zipcar struck up an innovative partnership in 2016 which, in the two years since, has led thousands of Londoners to get behind the wheel of the petrol-electric Golf GTE or internal combustion-engined Polo. Now that choice of car will increase further, with a significant order from Zipcar for 325 all-electric e-Golfs.
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At this weeks annual AGM Audi said it plans to sell around 800,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the year 2025, with 20 electrified models on its product line. This plan is to be called “Audi.Vorsprung.2025”. Audi highlighted plans to produce an electrified variant in each model series by 2025, so that every customer
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It’s not Nevada but the hottest early May bank holiday weekend ever resulted in solar panels powering their largest-ever share of the UK’s energy mix. As we basked in Sunday’s sunshine, photovoltaic panels across the country produced more power than any other energy source. Solar installations powered as much as 28.5pc of the nation’s electricity,
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The new Jaguar I-PACE will form the heart of an all-new zero-emissions luxury chauffeur service to and from Heathrow Airport. As many as 200 I-PACEs will be available at Heathrow as part of a deal with WeKnowGroup, creating one of the largest electric vehicle fleets in the UK. The zero emissions chauffeur service will begin
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KIA is set to join the full EV club with an all electric version of the NIRO mini SUV. Kia unveiled a new all-electric version of Niro at the 5th International Electric Vehicle Expo in Jeju, Korea. This is a large battery vehicle with a 64 KWh battery pack that KIA claims will power the
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Our collective love for coal is toast. For three days Britian used no coal fired power stations with power instead comming from wind and gas. Coal accounted for less than 7% of the power mix last year, according to official figures. In April, 2017 Britain went its first full day without coal since the 19th
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Tesla has many thousands of deposit holders waiting for their car. Since the Model 3 launch in late July 2017 the production rate has inched up in fits and bursts as Tesla add and tinker with the production process, the output of the GigaFactory making the Battery Packs and wrangle with suppliers. Production run rates
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Chargers with up to 350kW charging capacity could be installed in 50 motorway locations. The National Grid has pitched a network of 50 electric vehicle charging stations with a capacity of up to 350kW across England and Wales, along with a similar network in Scotland. The Financial Times reports that the company, which runs the UK’s electric grid, has
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