[ad_1] Most motorists would be happy to use smart charging schemes if it meant lowering the cost of their electricity bill, UK Power Networks has found. The utility operator, which owns and maintains electricity cables and lines across London and the South East,...

[ad_1] The number of petrol stations is falling in the UK, but climate change action has little to do with it. Instead, it is a business conscious decision. There was a time when arriving at a petrol station was part of the romance of driving. Many of them were even...

[ad_1] Volkswagen Kassel accelerates the design process for electric motors by building and distributing simulation applications that evaluate the strength of rotor laminations. As more consumers express concern for the environment, electric vehicles are on track to...

[ad_1] Electric car batteries could be damaged from commercial fast-charging stations which subject them to high temperatures and high resistance, potentially causing them to crack, leak and lose storage capacity. Engineers at the University of California, Riverside...

[ad_1] Sunak emphasised the importance of “investing in ideas” and continuing the UK’s historic track record of world-leading science and engineering. “To help our businesses lead the next generation of high productivity industries, we also need to invest now in the...

[ad_1] General Motors (GM) has unveiled a “modular” electric car battery that boasts fast charging, higher capacities and will power the firm's upcoming range of electric vehicles. The automaker, which owns successful brands Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick, teased...

[ad_1] With global sales of EVs soaring in 2019 to nearly double the previous year, German automaker Volkswagen has warned that owners of new vehicles may be caught unawares as temperatures drop. Range In the depths of winter, range can reduce by up to 50 per cent...

[ad_1] A report from the University of Birmingham published in Nature recently which looked at the recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles raised concerns that a mountain of waste may be accumulating. The paper, which focused on the challenge of...

[ad_1] The UK government is to accelerate the phase-out of petrol and diesel cars, bringing forward a ban on new vehicles from 2040 to 2035. In 2017, the government announced that it would ban the sale of all new cars with internal combustion engines (ICEs), by 2040...

[ad_1] Its partner, Wright Electric, announced that it was working to develop electric systems that were big enough for a commercial flight of easyJet’s 186-seat electric aircraft, named the Wright 1. The US firm said that it hopes to begin test flights using its...

[ad_1] General Motors (GM) has used a sneak peek of its upcoming Super Bowl ad to tease the return of the Hummer in all-electric form. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that GM had purchased some ultra-expensive Super Bowl commercial airtime to...

[ad_1] The ride sharing firm currently wants to go fully electric in the Capital by 2025, which would require converting all of its 45,000 drivers to EVs. The fleet of 40kWh Nissan Leafs, which can travel up to 270km on a single charge and are manufactured in...

[ad_1] The Government has said it is doubling funding for electric chargepoints to £10m next year, in the hope it will convince more drivers to invest in EVs. The money could fund up to another 3,600 chargepoints across the country and make charging at home and...

[ad_1] Electric taxis in Nottingham will be the first vehicles to make use of the technology as it will be installed in taxi ranks in the city as an alternative to plugs and chargepoints, with multiple taxis being able to charge at once. The DfT also said that as...

[ad_1] The upstart EV company has opened up recruitment for its planned design, research and development centre in Shanghai - its first such facility in China. Tesla began Model 3 production at its first Chinese ‘Gigafactory’ (Shanghai’s’ Gigafactory 3) last autumn...

[ad_1] Tesla cars could soon be talking to pedestrians, asking them to hop in or get out of the way on congested roads, the company's CEO Elon Musk has hinted. Sharing a video via Twitter, in which a Tesla car can be seen talking to pedestrians, Musk said the feature...