Businesses to kick-start electric vehicle roll out

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Government reveals plans to incentivise office and home charging over "underutilised and uneconomic" public infrastructure

Businesses will be at the heart of the government's strategy to have tens of thousands of electric vehicles (EV) on the UK's roads by 2015 and could even profit from employees' recharging on their premises....

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