Category: Electric Vehicles
EV subscription service Onto partners with Pod Point for home charging
All-inclusive electric car (EV) subscription service Onto has appointed Pod Point, a provider of electric vehicle charging, as its new partner for home charging. The partnership will see Onto subscribers eligible to buy a 7kW Pod Point Solo 3, the latest iteration of its home charger, at a preferential rate starting from £509 for a…
Citroën Ami Electric wins ‘Best Innovation’ at DrivingElectric awards
The distinctive Citroën Ami Electric, pictured above, has been given the ‘Innovation Award’ at the DrivingElectric Awards Launching in the UK in spring 2022, Ami is an electric quadricycle designed to meet the mobility needs of people in the UK’s cities and urban environments. Powered by a 5.5kWh battery, Citroën Ami Electric has a range…
InstaVolt tops Zap-Map’s EV charging league table
A new survey by EV mapping service Zap-Map has identified the most and least popular electric vehicle charging networks as rated by EV drivers. Now in its fourth year, the league table comes from Zap-Map’s annual EV charging survey, which had over 3,000 respondents. This year Zap-Map is awarding a new ‘Best EV Charging Network’…
Nissan unveils EV ‘ambition’ for 2030, including all-solid-state batteries
Nissan has unveiled Nissan Ambition 2030, the company’s new long-term vision for empowering mobility and beyond. Over the next ten years, Nissan claims it will deliver exciting, electrified vehicles and technological innovations while expanding its operations globally. Based on customer demands for a diverse range of exciting vehicles, Nissan will introduce 23 new electrified models,…
IONITY to invest 700m Euros in fast-charging EV points
EV charging platform IONITY is investing around 700 Million Euros to install over 5,000 additional fast-charging points across Europe by 2025. The joint venture in which Audi has a stake will increase the number of high-performance 350 kW charging points from more than 1,500 at present to around 7,000 by 2025. In addition, they are…
Fleet EV charging firm partners with Zap-Map
Fleet EV charging company Allstar Business Solutions Limited has partnered with digital platform, Zap-Map, to provide payment solutions for fleets with EVs. Attracting 180,000 UK users per month to its app, Zap-Map provides EV drivers with access to detailed mapping of charge point locations across the UK, allowing users to search for chargers, plan their journeys, pay…
Global EV charging sessions to hit 1.5 billion by 2026
A new study from Juniper Research has found the global volume of EV charging sessions, where an EV’s battery is charged using a charging point, will exceed 1.5 billion per annum in 2026, from just 200 million in 2021. This remarkable growth rate of more than 665% over the next five years will be driven by…
Connected Kerb joins Zap-Map’s payment system
EV mapping service Zap-Map has announced that Connected Kerb is the latest charge point operator to join Zap-Pay - a system for EV charging across different networks from within the Zap-Map app. The two companies, having recently signed the Zap-Pay agreement, have already begun work on the technical integration required to set up Connected Kerb…
NAWA to announce electric motorbike at EICMA 2021 in Milan
NAWA Technologies will be showing its NAWA Racer electric motorbike at the world’s biggest two-wheeled show, EICMA 2021 in Milan, from 25-28th November. NAWA Racer is a zero-emission motorbike concept that illustrates how NAWA’s next-gen nano-based ultracapacitors, called NAWACap, could be applied to a real-world electric vehicle (EV) powertrain, by combining them with conventional lithium-ion cells to create a…
Pocket-lint names Hyundai IONIQ5 EV ‘Best Car’ at awards
The Hyundai IONIQ 5, Hyundai’s latest EV, has been named ‘Best Car’ at the 2021 EE Pocket-lint Awards. Speaking of Hyundai’s win at the Awards, Chris Hall, Pocket-lint Editorial Director said: "The Hyundai IONIQ 5 brings with it the excitement of a brand new car: it feels unique, it feels special, while pulling in the…
