All Electric articles – Page 5
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NewsGovernment earmarks £1bn of taxpayer cash for electric trucks and vans
The Department for Transport is continuing its push for electric goods vehicles by funnelling £1bn of central funds into discounts of up to £81,000 for eHGVs, while subsidising the installation of chargepoints at vehicle depots.
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NewsNew EV charging hub opens at Roadchef’s Folkestone Services
Gridserve has opened a new EV charging hub at Roadchef’s Folkestone Services on the M20, with 12 ultra-rapid bays capable of delivering electricity at up to 360kW.
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NewsNew 16-bay ultra-rapid EV hub opens in Chesterfield
A retail park in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is now home to a 16-bay ultra-rapid EV charging hub, with the new facility part of a £25m project between Raw Charging and commercial property firm Landsec.
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NewsAA says cheap used EVs are a good thing, but warns rapid depreciation ‘presents a challenge’
Breakdown and insurance firm the AA says falling secondhand prices for EVs have led to an improved landscape for the transition to electric cars – though the firm also says the “rapid depreciation” EVs are subject to is hampering things.
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NewsPublic EV charging could become cheaper after VAT ruling
On-the-road EV charging could soon become significantly cheaper after a tax tribunal ruled commercial electricity at public points should not attract the 20% VAT rate it currently does, but the 5% rate levied on domestic power.
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NewsFastned wins planning bid for new 12-bay EV hub
Chargepoint operator Fastned has been given the go ahead to construct a new 12-bay EV charging hub in Kilmarnock, 20 miles south-west of Glasgow.
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NewsRaw Charging to roll out 1,000 new chargers in massive £25m project
Raw Charging, which specialises in ‘destination’ chargers at retail and leisure locations, has announced a partnership with commercial property firm Landsec that will see it install over 1,000 new charging bays at locations including Bluewater shopping centre.
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NewsGridserve reveals plans for four more eHGV charging hubs
Chargepoint operator Gridserve has unveiled plans to install four new charging hubs for electric HGVs as the government pushes ahead with its ambition to ban sales of all new diesel trucks from 2040.
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NewsSMMT calls for review of EV targets yet remains convinced 2035 mandate is achievable
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has called for an “urgent” review of the ZEV Mandate, which each year requires a growing proportion of new cars be electric. Yet the organisation remains convinced that all new cars sold from 2035 should be zero emission.
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NewsANALYSIS: EV sales fall despite increased government bungs
While ministers continue to pull every available lever to push electric cars onto drivers, drivers themselves appear to have other ideas, with the EV market share declining in February compared to the same month last year.
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NewsGovernment warned over EV HGV mandate
Plans to mandate that all new HGVs sold from 2040 must be zero emission should not echo the rules in place for cars and vans “under any circumstances”, the government has been told.
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NewsNew terminology launched for EV charging speeds
The official names for EV charging speeds have been changed to “modernise” them. What was once ‘slow’ charging (3kW to 7.9kW) is now known as ‘standard’, while the old ‘fast’ moniker (8kW to 49kW) has been changed to ‘standard plus’. Rapid (50kW to 149kW) and ultra-rapid (150kW+) ratings remain unchanged.
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NewsThree weeks to apply for rural chargepoint grants
Forecourt operators have just three weeks to apply for a £10 million government fund aimed at bolstering rural England’s supply of electric vehicle chargepoints.
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AnalysisCOMMENT: there are now more EV chargers than petrol pumps in the UK; this is a damning statistic
Last week the Department for Transport released a set of statistics showing there are now “considerably more” public EV chargepoints in the UK than there are petrol pumps. But this isn’t the ‘win’ some consider it to be – instead, it’s a damning indictment of the electric car.
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NewsChargepoint firms say more chargepoints will solve the rich Vs poor EV divide
Two rival chargepoint firms have, in two separate pieces of research, looked at the effect drivers’ wealth has on the likelihood of them owning an electric car, and found that more chargepoints are the way to solve the rich Vs poor EV divide.
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NewsCharging firms call for new EV socket-sign rules
The government may have expended much time, money and effort on Fuel Finder, but now the UK’s EV and chargepoint sectors are calling for new legislation mandating chargers be given equal prominence to petrol stations as far as signage is concerned.
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NewsNHS gets £22m injection for EV plug sockets
The National Health Service has received a total of £22m from central government to install chargers for electric vehicles at hospitals and other medical facilities.
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NewsSUMMIT: Government to outline progress on electric motoring
At last year’s Summit, the government spelled out its plans for an electric transition on Britain’s roads. Twelve months on, the same senior official from the Department for Transport’s Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) will provide a progress report.
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NewsBeliev wins council chargepoint contract with financial support from Defra
Chargepoint operator Believ has been chosen by Warrington Borough Council to install and manage a new series of chargepoints in the region, with additional support coming from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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NewsAllego installs new Scottish chargepoints
French-owned chargepoint firm Allego has completed the installation of four new EV chargers in Aberdeenshire.