All Electric articles – Page 55
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NewsNew electric battery to power Aston Martin Rapide E
A new company to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles has been set up by Unipart Manufacturing Group and Williams Advanced Engineering, an offshoot of the Formula 1 racing team. The joint venture is called Hyperbat and its new factory in Coventry is set to begin production in early 2019. The ...
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NewsLondon trials announced for new electric van
A maker of electric taxis, LEVC (London EV Company), has announced that it is due to start trials with potential customers of its new electric van in London in the second half of 2019. The business is currently in discussion with a number of major public-sector fleets about joining the ...
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Forecourt Trader Electric Track Day 2018 Sponsors
Originally established in 1935, Christie & Co are the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical. We have a strong pedigree in the retail sector - having the UK’s largest convenience retail and forecourt ...
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NewsTaskforce set up to oversee electric vehicle provision
The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) has been appointed to facilitate the Government’s new Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce which was announced as a part of the ‘Road to Zero’ strategy in July. The Taskforce will bring together the energy and automotive industries to plan for the changes that will take ...
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NewsVan fleet owners commit to switching 18,000 to electric
Sixteen of the UK’s largest van fleet operators have signed a commitment to switch all of their vans, totalling 18,000, to electric power by 2028. The commitment is dependent on there being sufficient charging infrastructure and competitively priced electric vans are available by 2028. The agreement is contained in the ...
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NewsElectric and hybrid cars achieve monthly sales record
The new car market hit a new high for August with sales of 94,094, 23.1% up on a year ago, reported the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Electric and hybrid cars also saw record monthly sales of just under 7,500, accounting for 8% of the market and up ...
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NewsAverage driver will wait nine years to buy electric car
Drivers in the UK say on average they will wait nine years to buy an electric car, according to research by the automotive marketplace Auto Trader. Drivers said that they’ll wait nine years before they will buy an electric or hybrid vehicle, with lack of charging infrastructure and upfront expense ...
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NewsAmbulance service introduces hydrogen-electric vehicles
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) has introduced three new hydrogen-electric support vehicles to its transport fleet. The vans, which do not produce any emissions, are powered by an electric motor using energy from both the battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. The battery recharges from a power supply and ...
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NewsForecourt Trader Electric Track Day 2018
As the dawn of a new age of motoring approaches with the publication of the government’s ‘Road to Zero’ strategy, Forecourt Trader is helping to further the discussion with the launch of an Electric Track Day. The first invitation-only Electric Track Day will be held on September 27 at Rockingham ...
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NewsPorsche aims for every second car to be electric by 2025
Porsche says it will have invested €6bn in developing electric vehicles by 2022, and it is aiming for every second car its sells to have an electric drive unit by 2025. The German car manufacturer will release its first electric model, the Taycan sports car, next year, and expects to ...
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NewsOfgem plans for huge increase in electric vehicle charging
Proposals to support millions of new electric vehicles forecast on Britain’s roads in the coming decades, while keeping costs down for their users and all energy consumers, have been tabled by the energy regulator Ofgem. It is consulting on plans which will reduce the cost to consumers of meeting the ...
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NewsSales of electric and hybrid vehicles rising every month
The overall number of pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles registered has risen every month so far this year, with one being registered every nine minutes in the UK, according to Go Ultra Low, the joint government and car industry campaign. The first half of 2018 saw 28,054 registered to ...
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NewsBP buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging company
BP is set to roll-out rapid chargers to selected sites after it agreed to purchase Chargemaster, the UK’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging company. Chargemaster operates the UK’s largest public network of EV charging points, with more than 6,500 across the country. It also designs, builds, sells and maintains EV ...
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NewsLondon mayor sets up taskforce to boost electric vehicle use
A new taskforce dedicated to boosting the infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) across the capital has been launched by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. A total of 104 rapid charging points have already been introduced, but they have mostly been delivered on land or roads managed by Transport for ...
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Electric charging locations will soon out-number PFSs
The number of electric charging locations will outnumber PFSs within four years, according to Nick Bywater, associate director of Christie & Co. He says that while sales of EVs currently represent only a small percentage of new car registrations, he believes it is the lack of public rapid charging infrastructure ...
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NewsUnion calls for support to transition to electric vehicles
The environment secretary Michael Gove’s plan to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 risks being a “car crash” for jobs and skills, unless it is part of an industrial strategy that secures a “just transition” to electric vehicles, according to the UK’s largest union Unite. ...
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NewsOxford to trial pop-up on-street electric vehicle charging points
Oxford will be the first city in the world to trial pop-up on-street electric vehicle charging points, according to the local council. The project is going ahead after it was awarded funding of £474,000 from the Government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Residents across Oxford are being encouraged to nominate their ...
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NewsCertas rolls out electric chargers across company owned sites
Certas Energy has begun installing charge points across its estate of company owned sites following a nationwide lease agreement with electric charging company InstaVolt. “Certas has chosen InstaVolt because of its expertise, the flexibility of the deal and the company’s proven ability to evolve with this rapidly advancing technology,” explained ...
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NewsVolvo Cars aims for 50% fully electric sales by 2025
Volvo Cars has set a target for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its sales by 2025, the company announced at the Beijing Auto Show. This builds on Volvo Cars’ 2017 announcement that all new models released from 2019 will be available as either a mild hybrid, plug-in ...
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NewsElectric charging sites will outnumber forecourts in 4 years, says Christie & Co
The number of electric charging locations will outnumber petrol filling stations within four years, according to Nick Bywater, associate director of Christie & Co, which was exhibiting at this week’s National Convenience Show. He says that while sales of electric vehicles currently represents only a small percent of new car ...