Category: Electric Vehicles
Fiat partners with EV subscription service Onto
Fiat UK is partnering with electric car subscription service Onto to provide a total of 600 New 500s to its fleet. The New 500 marks the third generation of this iconic car with a clear focus on sustainable mobility and modern design. Designed, engineered, and manufactured at the home of Fiat in Turin, the New…
Voi launches safety campaign to educate e-scooter riders
European micromobility Voi has launched its second international safety campaign, “Let’s get it right”, to educate riders about how to responsibly use shared e-scooters. The campaign, which will run for six weeks, is targeting people living in the 80+ towns and cities where Voi operates. Voi also commits to host more than 100 safety training…
Almost half of drivers can’t afford EV, survey claims
Almost half can’t afford electric vehicle (EV), with 1 in 3 worried they could be priced out of driving Government grant not enough for people to buy an electric car 75% believe government could make electric motoring more expensive in the future A fifth don’t find electric cars as desirable as their petrol/diesel equivalents A…
CUPRA claims ‘technology packed’ Born will protect vulnerable road users
CUPRA’s first all-electric car is packed with technology designed to help prevent collisions with vulnerable road users Last year, 430 pedestrians and cyclists were killed on British roads, and a further 8,720 were seriously injured CUPRA Born, available to order in the UK now, features AVAS sound (Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System) which is perceptible to…
GreenFlux and Osprey Charging Network establish roaming connection
GreenFlux, a provider of EV charging software and services, has signed a roaming agreement with Osprey Charging Network, opening the UK rapid-charging network to nearly 90,000 EV drivers. It's hoped the agreement will be a key enabler of cross-channel charging across Europe and the UK, with Osprey being among the first few major UK networks…
Ohme partners with Motability for EV charging
UK smart home charger provider Ohme is partnering with Motability Operations to become the official EV charger provider for customers on the Motability scheme. It claims the partnership with Motability Operations will help make the switch to electric vehicles easier for disabled people through reliable, personal e-mobility. Ohme’s technology with its Home Pro smart charger…
EV firm Polestar announces global partnership with Hertz
Car hire company Hertz and Swedish EV manufacturer Polestar have announced a new global partnership that includes purchasing up to 65,000 electric vehicles (EVs) over five years. Availability is expected to begin in Spring 2022 in Europe and late 2022 in North America and Australia. For Hertz, the partnership is part of the company’s ongoing…
TIER acquires Fantasmo to help improve e-scooter parking
European micro-mobility provider TIER Mobility has acquired Fantasmo, a US-based technology company, to continue investing in and developing an accurate e-scooter parking system. TIER claims Fantasmo has already earned a world-class reputation with its Camera Positioning System (CPS), a new positioning technology that is ten times more accurate than GPS and which can validate e-scooter…
Lotus reinvents itself as EV company with new Eletre SUV
Lotus' plans to reinvent itself as an electric performance car firm with a wide range of vehicles (rather than just sports cars) is taking shape as it announces the new Eletre SUV. The SUV, whose name means 'coming to life' in Hungarian, is the first of four EVs set to arrive by 2025 from the…
ZipCharge wins British Engineering Excellence Award
Portable Electric Vehicle charging company, ZipCharge, has announced it has won a prestigious British Engineering Excellence Award for its Go portable charger. The award for the R&D Project of the Year was given in recognition of ZipCharge’s R&D programme and putting the portable Electric Vehicle (EV) charger throughautomotive industry car development processes and standard trials…
