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London Buses Go Electric

30th April 20155th March 2015 by Chris

London bus route 312 which will become the first route in London to be … …read more…

EV Etiquette

30th April 20154th March 2015 by Chris

Picture the scene: you set your plug-in car’s sat-nav to find the nearest … …read more…

EV goes up market

30th April 20154th March 2015 by Chris

For so very long I complained that deveopment of electric transport never seemed … …read more…

Jaguar Land Rover plans zero-emission electric vehicle

5th March 201521st February 2015 by Chris

You know the importance of a market when the top end takes … …read more…

The Leaf Goes to WWT

1st October 201517th February 2015 by Chris

Yesterday we decided to go to Slimbridge.

When we lived in … …read more…

Time for a new car

1st October 20152nd January 2015 by Chris

Last month Jan felt we should, at last, get a second car. During the two decades we were in Bristol we only … …read more…

Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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