Tag: EV
Citroen Ami UK to go on sale from £7695
Available in three trim levels – 'Ami', 'Ami Pop' and 'Ami Vibe'. Optional Colour Packs allow customers to personalise their Ami 100% ëlectric. My Ami Cargo – the practical e-mobility solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas – is available in one specification, priced at £7,995. Ami 100% ëlectric and My Ami Cargo have a…
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…
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…
Sustainable Deliveries – How Couriers Can Be Greener
In recent years, the issue of sustainability has become increasingly important to businesses and organisations across the world. As we begin to place a focus on protecting and preserving the environment to ensure a greener future for the next generation, industries are responsible for taking steps to become more sustainable. For the logistics industry and…
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…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Tesla delivers record number of EVs
Tesla says it delivered a record number of its cars in the first quarter, despite supply chain challenges. The electric carmaker says it delivered more than 310,000 vehicles in the first three months of this year. That was almost 70% higher than for the same time last year. Chief executive Elon Musk says the improvement…
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…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Parents urged to talk to young children about social media
Parents are being encouraged to talk to their children about social media at a young age after new research found girls are negatively affected earlier than boys. The new study, from experts at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, found that girls experience a negative link between social media use and life satisfaction when they…
UK Government plans to increase EV charge points to 300,000 by 2030
The UK Government has unveiled plans to support the UK market to reach 300,000 public EV charge points by 2030 – equivalent to almost five times the number of fuel pumps on our roads today. Under the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy, charging will become easier and cheaper than refuelling a petrol or diesel car, claims…
