Worcestershire UK – the Little Green blog

Join the Tribe

30th December 201729th December 2017 by Chris

I love my political affiliation, love being a democrat, care about seeing our country thriving together – not swinging right and then … …read more…

Don’t We All Want a Place to Live?

23rd August 201628th November 2015 by Chris

In his Autumn Statement the chancellor addressed the issue of housing in a way … …read more…

Do You do Good Investing?

18th October 201518th October 2015 by Chris

Choosing whether to follow the heart or the head has often proven a challenge … …read more…

Worcestershire – Financial Boost Hosting European Wheelchair Basketball Championships

1st October 201521st August 2015 by Chris

As the final count down begins to the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, to be … …read more…

SRI Services Launches New Site

1st October 201513th July 2015 by Jan Oliff

I hope it is now quite well known how much I feel passionate about … …read more…

WLEP News May2015

1st October 201514th May 2015 by Chris

Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (WLEP) newsletter with lots of good … …read more…

Why Take Professional Advice?

30th April 201515th April 2015 by Jan Oliff

Financial Planning is all about Right Money, Right Time, Right … …read more…

Students and Aspiration

30th April 201527th March 2015 by Jan Oliff

Yesterday I spent an hour with first year students doing business studies at … …read more…

New rooftops in the City to go green

1st October 201523rd March 2015 by Chris

Now here’s an idea to put Worcester in the map. An opportunity to … …read more…

Worcestershire Economic Growth – 3rd Highest in England

23rd August 20162nd March 2015 by Chris

Dramatic new economic growth figures just released by the Office … …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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