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Renault aims for electric leadership by 2025 with Alpine

Updated: January 14, 2021

There’s been a shakeup at the French manufacturer with some big changes ahead. Renault has released its ‘Renaulution’ plans which include a number of small electric vehicles as well as pivoting the Alpine sports car brand to 100% electric. Renault has already...

Hitachi Capital invests £10m in electric forecourts

Updated: January 13, 2021

Leading financial services company Hitachi Capital has just announced a £10m investment in Gridserve Sustainable Energy LTD. Back in December, Gridserve opened the first of 100 electric forecourts to EV drivers. The site at Braintree in Essex features 36 electric vehicle chargers...

Osprey is the fastest-growing independent charging network in 2020

Updated: January 12, 2021

In 2020 the Osprey charging network grew from 49 to 132 sites, despite numerous COVID restrictions and lockdowns. This is down to landlords of destination sites, such as retail parks and pubs, choosing Osprey to install rapid chargers. These destination chargers not...

When will we see an electric car from Apple?

Updated: January 8, 2021

We’ve been teased with the idea of ‘Project Titan’, Apple’s self-driving car, for a number of years. While Apple never publicly laid out its plans, it was clear that some kind of vehicle was in the works for the tech giant. Now,...

Tesla Superchargers are already open to other cars

Updated: January 7, 2021

The Tesla Supercharger network offers rapid chargers to Tesla owners but a recent tweet from CEO Elon Musk suggests these chargers are already open to other electric vehicles. The network features around 20,000 different charging points around the world with many of...

UK EV market share tops 10% for 2020

Updated: January 8, 2021

December’s new car sales figures, released by the SMMT today, show that there was another excellent month for EV (electric vehicle) sales and completing a year of high growth for EVs in 2020. Close to a quarter of all December car registrations...

Every parking space could become a charging point with these robots

Updated: January 6, 2021

Volkswagen Group Components has provided us with a vision into the future and a new way in which the charging infrastructure will grow. While fixed charging points are growing every day, the concept from VW Group is that soon an entire car...

Revealed: UK’s top ranking electric vehicle networks

Updated: January 5, 2021

Major new Zap-Map survey ranks top 16 charging networks as rated by EV drivers Zap-Map, the UK’s leading electric vehicle (EV) mapping service, is today releasing its annual electric vehicle charging network satisfaction rankings. The much-anticipated league table ranks the UK’s most...

New electric cars coming in 2021

Updated: December 31, 2020

With the turn of the year, attention inevitably turns to what’s coming along in the next 12 months. But before we look forward to the many, many EVs due in 2021, let’s just put the current state of play for electric vehicles...

New survey reveals EV switchers don’t look back

Updated: December 29, 2020

Less than 1% of drivers want a return to petrol or diesel A new poll of Zap-Map’s community of electric vehicle (EV) drivers has revealed more than 90% of drivers will not be replacing their current EV with a petrol and diesel vehicle....

Top 10 electric cars 2021

Updated: December 28, 2020

Electric car sales are booming, and it’s easy to see why. Increasingly, buyers are becoming aware of the benefits electric vehicles can bring, and seeing just how good a large number of EVs are as cars, rather than just electric ones. Only...

First InstaVolt rapid charger goes live at McDonald’s

Updated: December 23, 2020

Following a rollout of rapid chargers at KFC locations across the UK, InstaVolt has now installed its first charger at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Port Talbot. The fast-food chain wants to play its part in a greener economic recovery, and its ambition...