The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has released figures detailing new car registrations in May 2021. Among other positive figures for electric vehicles, there are now officially over half a million (260,000) battery-electric vehicles…
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ABB to completely electrify 10,000-strong fleet by 2030
Global technology group ABB has announced that it will completely electrify its fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles by 2030. The company’s climate protection goals also include using only renewable energy, as well as establishing energy efficiency targe…
Citroën delivers new ë-Dispatch vans to clean up Leeds
Citroën is cleaning up in Leeds. The manufacturer has delivered an order of nine new Citroën ë-Dispatch vans on behalf of one of its clients. The fleet of vehicles, supplied by Citroën retailer Yeomans in Exeter, will be put to use for…
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Tesla plant in Germany expanding to include battery cell factory
Tesla’s electric vehicle plant in Grünheide is being expanded to include a battery cell factory. However, the company says the water consumption of the combined Gigafactory is not set to increase. According to a media report, this information was…
Rolls-Royce confirms first BEV is under development
Rolls-Royce has confirmed it is working on its first electric car. According to CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös, the future electric car will be called Silent Shadow, although the luxury carmaker has not yet revealed information on the technical specification…
Audi developing concept for high power charging parks
Audi is working on its own rapid-charging concept for its electric cars and will create a pilot in the second half of the year to test a possible series application. The core of the concept is “premium” high power charging (HPC) in…
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Ofgem invests £300m in infrastructure for ultra-rapid chargers
Ofgem has today announced that motorway service areas and key trunk road locations across the UK are to receive the cabling required to install 1,800 new ultra-rapid charge points. As drivers make the switch from petrol and diesel to electric, Britain’…
Ford challenges smallest British town to switch to electric
Ford of Britain has challenged the population of Fordwich, Britain’s smallest town, to switch to electric in the new, all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E. New research conducted in March showed that – if the ban on petrol and diesel cars came in nex…
Powerful electric vehicle charging hub heading to Oxford
UK-based Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, and Oxford City Council have joined up with Fastned, the European electric vehicle (EV) charging company, Tesla Superchargers and Wenea, one of the largest EV charging services providers in Europe, to deliv…
IEA recommends 60% vehicle electrification by 2030
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented a step-by-step plan on how, by 2050, the world could achieve net CO2 neutrality. According to the IEA, the climate protection pledges made by governments to date fall well short of what is required fo…