All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2025 – Page 5
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News£33m project to swap diesel vehicles for electric and plug-in hybrid fleet
Southern Water have awarded a £33m five-year contract to Novuna Vehicle Solutions to transition its existing fleet of diesel vans and company cars to electric and plug-in hybrids.
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NewsWest Sussex to get 30 more on-street chargers
Thirty on-street EV chargers are to be installed in a deal between Connected Kerb and West Sussex County Council.
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NewsEU leaders call for acceleration of hydrogen mobility
CEOs from more than 30 companies have joined the new Global Hydrogen Mobility Alliance which has one clear message to European policy makers: Hydrogen mobility is essential to Europe’s climate goals, industrial competitiveness, and strategic resilience – and urgent action is needed on infrastructure buildou
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NewsTruck stop turns to solar power and EV chargers
The UK’s oldest truck stop has is fully embracing modernity after being kitted with solar panels and EV chargers.
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NewsEV chargers should be classified as Critical Infrastructure to stop cable theft, says chargepoint boss
The chief executive of the UK’s leading chargepoint firm has said the government should classify public chargers as “critical infrastructure” to tackle the organised criminals targeting cables for their scrap metal.
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Industry FeatureSAFETY FIRST: Best practice for operating unmanned sites
The second of Forecourt Trader’s ‘safety on the forecourt’ features focuses on unmanned sites.
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NewsRetailer faces cash flow pressure over Prax Group administration
Uncertainty is not good for business. Those are words of forecourt retailer Prem Uthayakumaran, director at Prehybrid Ltd which has four sites – one of which is supplied with fuel by Total. Or at least it was until the Prax Group went into administration.
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NewsPrax Group administration costing retailers thousands of pounds a day in lost trade
The Prax Group administration is costing retailers dearly. Tom Dant, managing director of Gill Marsh Forecourts, says customer counts across his three sites are down around 40% and the company is losing thousands of pounds each day in shop sales.
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NewsCar wash owner applies to convert business into petrol station
The owners of a carwash in Pelsall, a village to the north of Walsall, West Midlands, have submitted a planning application to convert their existing business into a petrol station, which the site previously played host to.
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NewsEG Group back-office staff in talks with Asda over their jobs
Asda is in consultation with 72 EG Group back-office staff in Blackburn about the future of their jobs.
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NewsSouthern Energy steps in to help Harvest Energy retailers
Southern Energy aka Pricewatch has put a message out to any Harvest Energy retailers in the South East who are having problems with their fuel supplies to get in touch.
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News£6.5bn worth of discounts help EVs make up one in four new cars
Almost one in four new cars registered in June was electric, though this achievement came at a cost: over the last 18 months, car makers have knocked an “unsustainable” £6.5bn off EV list prices.
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NewsAbandoned Hertfordshire petrol station could return as modern forecourt
Plans have been submitted to bring a disused filling station back to the sector. The White Horse Service Station in Baldock, Herts, ceased selling fuel between 2010 and 2015 based on historic map imagery.
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NewsFormula 1 British Grand Prix to be powered by HVO
This weekend’s Formula 1 British Grand Prix will see HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) power festivities at Silverstone.
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NewsMore than 10% of fleets have no EVs
New research reveals that nearly a third of UK fleets have 25% or fewer EVs in operation, and 11% have not introduced any EVs at all.
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NewsSteel frames in place on Agratas battery manufacturing site
The first steel frames on the Agratas site near Bridgwater, Somerset, are now in place, marking a major milestone in the construction of the UK’s flagship battery manufacturing facility.
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NewsScottish Water adds fully electric HGV to its fleet
Scottish Water’s first fully electric HGV has hit the streets of Glasgow to provide waste water services to customers in the city.
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NewsKaran Retail snaps up high-volume site in Scotland
Top 50 Indie Karan Retail has acquired its 44th forecourt – the high volume Peggy White’s Newhouse site in Motherwell.
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NewsMFG gets permission to substantially upgrade Suffolk forecourt
East Suffolk Council has granted planning permission for MFG to significantly update a BP filling station in Martlesham, a village to the east of Ipswich.
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NewsHalf-year chargepoint installation figures show strong growth in ultra-rapid hubs
Ultra-rapid EV charging hubs – defined as a group of six or more chargers delivering electricity at 150kW or more – are growing in number more quickly than any other type of chargepoint installation, according to an analysis of the first six months of 2025.