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Tusker, one of the UK’s leading car benefit companies, recently installed a substantial number of Rolec’s AutoCharge electric vehicle charging pedestals at its Watford HQ. Each of the AutoCharge pedestals were equipped with Rolec’s EV Charge Online pay-to-charge system, allowing EV drivers to use their mobile phone to pay to charge using Visa, Mastercard, American […]
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When Ecotricity first launched the Electric Highway – a series of rapid charge points across England, Scotland and Wales – the service was free to use. This helped attract many new owners of electric vehicles who were otherwise put off at the prospect of running out of juice along the roadside, with nowhere in-between towns
Fairer pricing for Ecotricity’s Electric Highway Read More »
The days of plugging in may be over sooner than expected, after successful trials of a new 20kW wireless charging road in France have been undertaken by Renault, Qualcomm Technologies and Vedecom. The demonstrated took place today, 18 May 2017, and showed-off Dynamic wireless Electric Vehicle Vharging (DEVC), which allows vehicles to charge while driving.
A future without plugging in? Possible, Renault demonstrates Read More »
From today, electric vehicle (EV) drivers can visit Chargie (www.chargie.net) to book a charge at domestic chargepoints across the UK. That means at someones house or driveway, not usually public points. Chargie is the world’s first dedicated and bookable peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging service, which will enable EV drivers to access the domestic, wall-mounted chargepoints
Charge your car at fellow plug-in owner’s homes. Welcome to Chargie Read More »
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has led a consortium of organisations, including Unipart Group, Coventry University, WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), Productiv, MCT ReMan and The National Composites Centre, in a successful bid for an APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) Competition to build a high performance, low volume, flexible battery manufacturing facility – the second such facility in
UK’s Second Battery Build Facility Gets a Green Light Read More »
Source East, an electric vehicle charging network, has long been plagued with problems. On 31st March 2017 Source East will cease to exist, as its operators cite unsustainable running costs as the primary reason for its closure. Electric vehicle drivers had experienced difficulty in using the charge points, due to a lack of RFID cards
It’s official: Source East is Dead Read More »
Cenex – the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies – today announced it will lead the Smart Mobile Energy project, supported by the Climate KIC. The Smart Energy Project will investigate how cities can increase energy efficiency and decrease carbon emissions by integrating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology into the existing
Cenex leads three-city Smart Mobile Energy project Read More »
ZapGo (www.zapgo.com) an Oxford based technology company has announced a new fast charge technology that will typically charge a mobile device in just five minutes, without the risk of it catching fire. At the heart of this technology is a new type of ‘supercapacitor’ using carbon nano-structures including graphene, materials that are superb conductors, super
Recharge your EV in five minutes? No problem, says Zapgo Read More »
Evolt, the nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charge point supplier, is exhibiting four new products at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) Event, 14 – 15 September at the Millbrook car testing facility near Bedford. The first live demonstration of its energy storage solution e-Stor, which supports EV charging equipment will be shown. Similar to home
Evolt to Show Off Four New Charge Points at CENEX LCV 2016 Read More »
Once again, Scotland will lead the electric vehicle charge thanks to a new contract between Transport Scotland and Charge Your Car (CYC). Electric car users across Scotland will be able to plug in to an improved charging network. The £750,000 contract sees CYC appointed to operate the ChargePlace Scotland network of over 550 electric vehicle
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