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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As part of its Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, the UK Government has announced it will bring forward the date when sales of petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned, from 2040 to 2030. A full decade earlier than initially planned, the sales stop of non-electrified vehicles will be aided by £1.3bn
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The Volkswagen Group is joining the eRoaming platform Hubject GmbH as a shareholder. With the strategic investment in the Berlin-based company, Europe’s largest car maker will push ahead with the digital interconnection of charging stations for electric vehicles starting in early 2017, as well as the expansion and internationalisation of Hubject GmbH together with the
BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, innogy and Siemens welcome Volkswagen to Hubject Read More »
While electric cars are still in their infancy, some car makers have famously gone it alone with regards to charging infrastructure, building a network of rapid chargers for their own kind. Other networks, like Ecotricity’s Electric Highway in the UK have been built with a more flexible and open approach, willing and able to accommodate
BMW, Daimler, Ford, Audi, Porsche & Volkswagen ally to create CCS network Read More »
A £10 million government investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure comes as the year-to-date plug-in car registrations total passes the sector’s full-year 2015 total. So far this year, motorists have bought 28,697 electric cars, placing 2016 ahead of last year’s January-December total of 28,188 cars with three months of the year still remaining. Part of
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At a time (pun intended) when electric vehicle charging is no longer free, the question of payment has come to the fore; should we pay for time plugged in or kWh used? Up until now, it was never really that important a question. Most plug-in car owners benefitted from free charging networks, but that’s all
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