Innovators are what makes the car industry tick, and it’s fair to say there’s a definite concentration of them working on the electric car scene. From cars and commercial vehicles, to charging and energy provision, electrification has pushed automotive into the innovation stratosphere! In this issue, Autovolt investigates the difficulties facing the companies tasked with […]
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Best Western Great Britain is leading the hospitality industry’s charge to accommodate more electric cars and says it costs less than the freshly squeezed orange juice served at breakfast to charge a guest’s car overnight. Thirty of its 250 sites now offer electric charging points for customers to use free of charge and interest has
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Charge Your Car (CYC), one of the UK’s most popular electric vehicle charge point networks, is to introduce a connection fee on each successful charge across its England and Wales tarrif-free public charge points. A £1 connection fee will be implemented from the 1st May 2017, the company stated in an email sent to their
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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
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Rolec EV has cut the subsidised price of its 16amp (3.6 kW) and 32amp (7.2 kW) WallPod home charging installations under the new (1st July 2016) OLEV Electric Vehicle Home Charge Scheme to as little as £149 inc. VAT, in order to encourage the installation of home EV charging points around the UK.
The company has a rich heritage in providing charge points for various environments, from caravan sites to marinas and more recently electric cars too. The company has supplied charge points to several major manufacturers in the UK, including Jaguar Land Rover and most recently Kia Motors…
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Efforts to reduce air pollution in St Albans through the adoption of more sustainable modes of transport moved into high gear on Friday 3 July with the launch of the first fully electric taxi and rapid charging point in the City. A new scheme, under the title #ElectricRevolution, run by St Albans based business, Electric
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Chargemaster PLC and Mitsubishi Motors (UK) are delighted to announce a new charging partnership. It brings with it an array of customer benefits and support, and underpins both parties’ ongoing commitment to reducing harmful emissions. Toby Marshall, Sales and Marketing Director, Mitsubishi Motors (UK) said; “We recognise that our plug-in vehicle customers need the very
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As electric and plug-in hybrid sales grow, strain on the existing infrastructure is already beginning to show. Some battery electric vehicle (BEV) owners are finding themselves in the situation whereby they cannot gain access to charge points because they are taken up by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Plug-in hybrid sales have rocketed from a
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As per their stated intention to provide strategically positioned Superchargers, their own brand of rapid chargers, Tesla Motors have unveiled the latest additions to their network with installations at London and Birmingham. Both are located at Hyatt Regency hotels with the Hyatt Regency London Hotel, located in the car park at The Churchill, Portman Square.
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An award-winning restaurant and hotel chain has opened the beauty of the Brecon Beacons to drivers of electric vehicles by installing the region’s first dedicated charging points. Taste Inn Wales has fitted charging stations at each of its three properties – Peterstone Court, The Nantyffin Cider Mill, The Castle and The Manor – allowing EV
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