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Morpeth car park becomes a solar farm

Morpeth car park becomes a solar farm

Northumberland County Council has installed a solar car port array to help provide clean energy for its headquarters at County Hall in Morpeth The £3.8m project, which includes a covered parking area with a canopy made from photovoltaic (PV) panels, has been designed and built by UK Power... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News
Harvesting sunshine in Portsmouth

Harvesting sunshine in Portsmouth

A swathe of solar panel canopies will be erected above a car park at the Lakeside Business Park in Portsmouth. The photovoltaic... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News
£381m LEVI funding boost for EV charging

£381m LEVI funding boost for EV charging

The UK government has announced that local authorities across England can now apply for the next round of the £381m Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News

LEVI funding awarded to 81 local authorities

Local authorities across England are to be allocated a share of £381m in stage two of the UK government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund. The funding will support 81 local authorities to improve the roll-out and commercialisation of local electric vehicle charging... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News
Location data will power infrastructure roll-out

Location data will power infrastructure roll-out

The transition to electric will be enabled by a dependable public charging network, with local authorities ideally placed to identify their local charging needs, says the Geospatial... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News
Local authorities can tap into EV mapping data

Local authorities can tap into EV mapping data

Local authorities can now gain access to electric vehicle chargepoint data compiled by mapping app Zapmap via the National EV Insight and Support (NEVIS) service, which is run by... continue

13 Sep 2023EVolution News
Solar car port opens at Elmbridge Civic Centre car park

Solar car port opens at Elmbridge Civic Centre car park

Elmbridge Borough Council has recently installed a solar panel car port in the Civic Centre pay & display car park, just off Esher High Street. The Surrey council has been working alongside Joju Solar, a designer... continue

8 Sep 2023EVolution News
Leicester activates solar car park canopies

Leicester activates solar car park canopies

Two canopies covered with solar panels onto the roof of Leicester’s Newarke Street car park have been completed. The canopies cover the roof of car park, with the... continue

8 Sep 2023EVolution News
UK EV drivers keenest for car park charging, says CTEK

UK EV drivers keenest for car park charging, says CTEK

The UK’s electric vehicle drivers are the keenest to charge in car parks out of the five European countries surveyed by YouGov for the EV chargepoint manufacturer CTEK. More than one in seven (15%) EV drivers... continue

1 Sep 2023EVolution News
Used car market electrifying as EV sales soar, says SMMT

Used car market electrifying as EV sales soar, says SMMT

The UK’s used car market rose by 4.1% during the second quarter of the year, with 1,832,267 units changing hands, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders... continue

9 Aug 2023EVolution News
A new EV is registered every 60 seconds

A new EV is registered every 60 seconds

The new car market grew 28.3% in July with 143,921 new vehicles registered, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). This was... continue

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4 Aug 2023EVolution News
London now has 1,000 zero-emission buses

London now has 1,000 zero-emission buses

London has now passed the milestone of more than 1,000 zero emission buses picking up customers on the city’s streets. This means that more than one in... continue

4 Aug 2023EVolution News
Electric van demand almost doubles, up 94.6% in July

Electric van demand almost doubles, up 94.6% in July

The number of UK light commercial vehicles (LCV) registered in the UK grew for the seventh consecutive month in July, increasing by 44.2% to 26,990 units, according to the latest figures published by the... continue

4 Aug 2023EVolution News
EV chargepoint operator Believ announces Bartlett as new CEO

EV chargepoint operator Believ announces Bartlett as new CEO

Electric vehicle chargepoint operator Believ has appointed Guy Bartlett as its new chief executive officer. Bartlett has a background in the energy sector, joining from infrastructure and solutions provider SMS, where he led the energy... continue

3 Aug 2023EVolution News
North East receives new funding for hydrogen transport

North East receives new funding for hydrogen transport

Airport services at Teesside International Airport will be undertaken using hydrogen-powered vehicles under an £8m government competition. Transport secretary Mark Harper announced  winning projects of... continue

2 Aug 2023EVolution News
Royal Mail launches electric drone deliveries in Orkney

Royal Mail launches electric drone deliveries in Orkney

Royal Mail and Skyports Drone Services have established a daily inter-island mail distribution service between three islands on Orkney. The project will initially operate for three months, with the intent to extend in... continue

1 Aug 2023EVolution News
En-route charging network Evyve goes live on Zap-Pay

En-route charging network Evyve goes live on Zap-Pay

En-route electric vehicle charging network evyve is the tenth network to go live on Zap-Pay, a platform allowing payment for EV charging across networks from Zapmap. Evyve joins live Zap-Pay partners Osprey,... continue

1 Aug 2023EVolution News
Connected vehicles offer the opportunity to look into the future

Connected vehicles offer the opportunity to look into the future

Data collected from connected vehicles can be used to help identify dangerous stretches of road before anyone is killed or seriously injured on them. This is one of many applications of data collected by cars and other vehicles including cycles as they... continue

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28 Jul 2023EVolution News
UK now has 44,000 public chargepoints

UK now has 44,000 public chargepoints

There are now over 44,000 public electric vehicle charging devices installed in the UK, new figures released by the Department for Transport... continue

27 Jul 2023EVolution News
Osprey opens ultra-rapid EV charging hub in Welwyn Garden City

Osprey opens ultra-rapid EV charging hub in Welwyn Garden City

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, recently visited the newly expanded charging hub alongside Ian Johnston, chief executive of Osprey Charging and head of operator association ChargeUK. As Member of Parliament for... continue

27 Jul 2023EVolution News
UK car production sees double-digit growth

UK car production sees double-digit growth

UK car production rose 11.7% in the first half of the year to 450,168 units with June – up 16.2% – the fifth consecutive month of growth,... continue

27 Jul 2023EVolution News
UK van production grows 16%

UK van production grows 16%

UK commercial vehicle manufacturing grew 16.0% in the first six months of the year as 58,675 units rolled... continue

27 Jul 2023EVolution News
BT Group trials converting street cabinets to electric vehicle charging points

BT Group trials converting street cabinets to electric vehicle charging points

Telecoms company BT is to pilot the repurposing of redundant street cabinets as electric vehicle (EV) charging units. The cabinets are currently used for providing copper-based broadband and phone services, and will be decommissioned as the nationwide upgrade to full fibre progresses. BT’s digital... continue

26 Jul 2023EVolution News
Public EV chargepoint regulations unveiled

Public EV chargepoint regulations unveiled

New regulations designed to improve the experience of using public electric vehicle (EV) chargers have been laid before Parliament. Under the Public Charge Point... continue

14 Jul 2023EVolution News
EV car park fire guidance published

EV car park fire guidance published

Interim fire safety guidance for parking and charging electric vehicles in covered car parks has been published by the Office for Zero... continue

13 Jul 2023EVolution News

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