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Liberty Charge has launched as a charge point operator (CPO) and will roll out an initial 500 electric vehicle charging sockets across five UK local authorities by the end of 2021 in partnership with Virgin Media O2.
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General Electric’s ‘Next Engineers’ programme to attract 3,500+ young people from all walks of life.
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A report published by NatWest sets out the potential opportunity that exists for the UK economy from the transition to net-zero, finding that SMEs could create up to 130,000 new jobs, produce around 30,000 new businesses and result in an estimated £160 billion opportunity for the UK economy.
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The Faraday Institution has opened a regional office in Newcastle and aims to bring together the region’s battery ecosystem including research, innovation, skills and production.
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Leading fleet management company VMS has bought 1,000 commercial vehicles from MAXUS, with a number of the vans purchased coming from the company’s electric vehicle (EV) range.
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The global technology and market leader in power grids has announced its evolution to Hitachi Energy and has renewed its purpose to ‘advancing a sustainable energy future for all’.
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Western Power Distribution has pledged most new connections for domestic electric vehicle (EV) chargers and heat pumps will now be approved on the same day or the next day, following WPD’s introduction of a new, streamlined system for processing and completing domestic connections for the installation of low carbon technologies (LCTs).
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A driverless, zero-emission mass transit technology – comprising autonomous electric pods capable of traveling on both road and rail – has been launched by UK-start up Urban.MASS.
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Ordnance Survey’s two-day OS Map and Hack event was declared an “amazing demonstration of creativity” after collaborators worked on ways to enhance electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure in Britain.
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Battery cell technology and R&D company Britishvolt are one of four grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge – with the partners set to develop a “next-generation, ultra-high power and fast-charging battery materials system for automotive applications”.
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