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 […]
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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
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Next, the retail giant, is the latest company to embrace Rolec’s ‘EV Charge Online’ service, with the provision and management of their electric vehicle charging network. Rolec EV recently confirmed that Next had commissioned a second phase of charge point installations featuring Rolec’s EV Charge Online system, which provides all EV drivers with access to
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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
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Rolec EV has announced several hundred EV charging points are already forming part of its ‘revolutionary’ new EV Charge Online network, since its launch at the end of 2016. A large number of these EV charging points have been installed for leading companies such as Next, Aldi, Taylor Wimpey, Symantec and the NHS among others.
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The London Taxi Company (LTC) today announced the official opening of the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range -extended electric vehicles. This new, state-of-the-art, vehicle plant in Ansty, Coventry, is where the world’s first purpose-built, mass-market electric taxi will be built. LTC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, has invested more
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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
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As part of its commitment to creating a zero-emission, zero-fatality future for mobility, Nissan today showed to the media its real-world testing of next generation autonomous drive prototype vehicles taking place in the east of London. This is the first time that Nissan has demonstrated its latest autonomous drive technology on public roads in Europe.
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The National Trust has offered its members free electric vehicle charge point access for the past couple of years, but they’ve been mostly confined to Wales, where sites benefitted from the ZeroNet scheme. The remainder of National Trust sites have largely been void of electric car friendliness, but things could be set to change. The
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Ecotricity’s founder and CEO Dale Vince has announced via newsletter that the hugely popular Electric Highway network of rapid chargers is about to start, “charging for charging” for the first time since it was put in place.
Ecotricity has, up until now, provided the convenience of rapid chargers dotted about the country at core locations including motorway services and near large junction points and destinations like Land’s End. The new cost to charge will be £5 for 20-minutes of charge…
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