Tag: EV

The UK government has announced an £86 million scheme to clean up the air in Greater Manchester, with part of this funding going towards delivering 40 more electric buses to the city's streets.The funding...

Just months after General Motors and Hyundai Motor signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on vehicles, supply chains, and clean energy technology, the Korean auto giant has revealed potential plans to supply its...

Renault Group's mobility unit, Mobilize, has launched a new ultra-rapid EV charging network for France, called Mobilize Fast Charge.With 16 individual charging stations already online in France, Mobilize has partnered with Finnish fast charging...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose country scrapped its own EV purchase incentives back in 2023, said that his proposal to introduce EU-wide purchase...

This guest editor piece was written by Ben Macdonald, CEO of Nodum, and was written in early January, prior to the US inauguration.An appliance is a device or piece of equipment designed to perform...

EVA England, an independent group which acts as a public voice for the country's EV drivers, is launching a public survey to collect new insights as the UK gets closer to its 2030 ban...

Business-oriented EV charging roaming network, Paua, has launched a partnership with Sainsbury's Smart Charge, the ultra-rapid charging network operated at over 69 sites of the British grocer.The total addition of over 550 Smart Charge...

The Alpine A290, which was jointly awarded the 2025 Car of the Year title with its less performance-oriented sibling, the Renault 5, has now opened for orders in the UK, with prices starting from...

ElectricDrives had the opportunity to attend the annual Scania Winter event in Norway, where the manufacturer shows off its latest range of truck offerings to both the media and potential customers.With Scania now offering...

2024 sales data gathered by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) shows that across 2024, the number of new fully-electric cars registered outnumbered the number of new diesel cars registered, in another promising step...

UK bus operator, Stagecoach Bus, is introducing the first fully-electric buses for the Sunderland region, with Pelican Bus + Coach supplying 20 fully-electric Yutong single-decker buses for the fleet.The addition will aid Stagecoach Bus...

Norway-based synthetic graphite manufacturers, Vianode, have signed a multi-billion dollar deal to provide synthetic graphite to automotive giant General Motors.The agreement signed between the two companies includes increasing production capacity and supply of synthetic...

British telecommunications firm, BT Group, has placed what is the largest single order of a commercial EV fleet, with over 3,500 EVs set to be delivered to the group over the next year.The order...

A major new campaign to rethink how to communicate the transition to EVs has been launched by World EV Day™.The Better Manifesto aims to focus less on what to communicate about the EV project,...

Following on from the news last year that Rivian had been granted a conditional loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to create an EV plant in the U.S. state of Georgia, the loan...

Polestar is set to build an EV within Europe for the first time, after it confirmed a future reveal of the Polestar 7.The Polestar 7 will be a fully-electric, premium compact SUV - set...

Anne Buckingham is the Managing Director of Evolt Charging, the SWARCO-owned EV charging firm that rebranded from SWARCO Smart Charging to Evolt Charging back in April 2024. After initially joining the firm as Sales...

Following Mazda’s first fully-electric vehicle, the MX30, which sold in relatively small numbers, the Japanese manufacturer is set to bring a new EV to the European market which exists in the same segment as...

2024 saw the highest EV market share figure on record for Norway, following months of impressive results - positioning the early adopting country as an example for others to follow.According to statistics gathered by...

A benefits partnership between energy firm OVO and Volkswagen Group UK, which has allowed private owners of new Volkswagen Group EVs to reap a number of benefits, will now be extended to cover fleet...

The all-electric Renault 5 E-Tech, along with its performance-oriented cousin, the Alpine A290, have been jointly awarded the Car of the Year 2025 title.It marks the fourth year in a row that a car...

Already on sale under a different name in China and several South American countries, BYD has announced the imminent arrival of the BYD ATTO 2 to Europe, which will become the smallest electric SUV...

Stellantis has emerged as one of several OEMs to meet the UK's ZEV sales target for 2024, which was set at 22% of total car sales, and 10% of total van sales for the...

Out of the whole of Europe, the United Kingdom saw the most battery electric vehicle (BEV) registrations in 2024, according to data collated by Schmidt Automotive Research.As shown by the UK's SMMT data, 381,970...