Summer EV Charging Hell in SW England
Lisa, our ageing experimental Nissan LEAF, was conveying us towards a visit to the seaside in Exmouth when she popped into Exeter Services for a quick “splash and dash” charging session. Sadly it was...
View ArticleGM to make V2H technology available across Ultium-based EVs by model year 2026
According to a General Motors press release earlier this week: GM will expand vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging technology across its retail portfolio of Ultium-based electric vehicles by...
View ArticleTesla Reveal Powershare V2H on Cybertruck
After maintaining an anti V2x stance for many years Tesla have finally accepted the inevitable! On the new Powershare page on the Tesla web site they say that: Tesla vehicles* equipped with Powershare...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Launches Smart Charge
In a press release today Sainsbury’s announced that: Sainsbury’s has today launched Smart Charge, a brand-new, dedicated EV charging business that will give drivers access to ultra-rapid EV charging...
View ArticleV2S Suddenly Makes Educational and Financial Sense?
In a press release this morning the Department for Transport of His Majesty’s Government announced that: New measures to support electric vehicle drivers from the government’s Plan for Drivers have...
View ArticleArrival’s UK Subsidiaries Enter Administration
In a press release earlier today Arrival announced that: Arrival today announced that Simon Edel, Alan Hudson and Sam Woodward of EY-Parthenon’s Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy team were...
View ArticleOctopus Energy introduce “The UK’s first Vehicle-to-Grid tariff”
This morning a new section was visible on the “Smart Tariffs” section of Octopus Energy’s web site. The new tariff is introduced by Constantine the friendly octopus as follows: Octopus Power Pack: the...
View ArticleRenault Reveal V2x Enabled R5 at Geneva Motor Show
We have been following the progress of the new Renault 5 for quite some time, and the long awaited reveal of the R5 will be live streamed tomorrow from the 2024 Geneva International Motor Show. Read...
View ArticleUK Government Announces £185 Million EV Charging Funding
In a press release this morning the United Kingdom Government’s Department for Transport announced that: Charging electric vehicles is set to get even easier thanks to hundreds of millions of funding...
View ArticleV2G at Everything Electric NORTH 2024
I was fortunate enough to find myself on stage for two different panel sessions at the Everything Electric NORTH show in Harrogate last weekend. We recorded those two sessions in full for posterity,...
View ArticleThe Great South West Powerhouse
I had high hopes for what I dubbed the “South West Powerhouse” back in 2015, when I attended the launch of Molly Scott Cato’s “The Power to Transform the South West” report in Glastonbury. Here’s...
View ArticleV2G at the 361 Energy Fair in Barnstaple
The 361 Energy Fair is back in Barnstaple on September 29th. The 2024 event starts at 10 AM in the Pannier Market with an introduction by Ian Roome, the newly elected Liberal Democrat MP for North...
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