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'Drive anytime': Ovo Energy launches pioneering flat-rate EV charging tariff
'Drive anytime': Ovo Energy launches pioneering flat-rate EV charging tariff

Smart tariff will leverage AI to offer customers cut-price charging at a flat rate of 6p per KWh, no matter what time they charge, supplier says

  • Automotive
  • 27 January 2021
Mission Possible Partnership: New coalition enlists private sector in push to clean up heavy industry and transport
Mission Possible Partnership: New coalition enlists private sector in push to clean up heavy industry and transport

Initiative launched by a clutch of sustainable business NGOs aims to galvanise global climate action by nurturing and supporting net zero collaboration across world's most carbon-intensive sectors, including steel, chemicals, shipping

  • Aviation
  • 27 January 2021
Boeing vows to develop planes able to fly on 100 per cent sustainable fuel by 2030
Boeing vows to develop planes able to fly on 100 per cent sustainable fuel by 2030

US planemaker says development of engines able to run solely on sustainable aviation fuels could deliver significant emissions savings

  • Aviation
  • 26 January 2021
Diesel-fuelled UK rail investment plans condemned as 'missed opportunity'
Diesel-fuelled UK rail investment plans condemned as 'missed opportunity'

Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced £794m investment package over the weekend in two rail routes that closed 50 years ago, but campaigners have criticised the plans for relying on diesel engines

  • Transport
  • 26 January 2021
Former F1 champion Jenson Button joins electric rally series Extreme E
Former F1 champion Jenson Button joins electric rally series Extreme E

Kicking off in April, Extreme E aims to highlight the impacts of climate change and promote electric vehicles via a series of races in remote and extreme locations

  • Transport
  • 25 January 2021
Shell swoops to acquire UK's largest electric vehicle charging network Ubitricity
Shell swoops to acquire UK's largest electric vehicle charging network Ubitricity

Acquisition would see Shell add Ubitricity's 2,700 on-street EV charge points in the UK to its broader network of forecourt and motorway service station charging infrastructure

  • Transport
  • 25 January 2021
'A great vote of confidence': Nissan confirms plan to expand UK electric vehicle manufacturing
'A great vote of confidence': Nissan confirms plan to expand UK electric vehicle manufacturing

BBC reports Nissan has concluded Brexit deal has secured long term future for Sunderland factory

  • Automotive
  • 22 January 2021
Road freight heading for the green fast lane, new report suggests
Road freight heading for the green fast lane, new report suggests

A new report outlines a roadmap for the decarbonisation of road freight through the “critical” next decade

  • Transport
  • 21 January 2021
Gulf Oil shifts gears with investment in EV mobility specialist Indra
Gulf Oil shifts gears with investment in EV mobility specialist Indra

Partnership should help UK vehicle to grid EV charging pioneer Indra expand its business in overseas markets

  • Transport
  • 21 January 2021
Electric vehicle sales accelerated through 2020 - but cost remains a roadblock, RAC analysis finds
Electric vehicle sales accelerated through 2020 - but cost remains a roadblock, RAC analysis finds

EV uptake continues to accelerate but price, access to infrastructure and driving range continue to deter many drivers, new analysis from RAC has found

  • Transport
  • 21 January 2021
Microsoft teams up with UK start-up to curb climate impact of aircraft contrails
Microsoft teams up with UK start-up to curb climate impact of aircraft contrails

Satavia claims better atmospheric forecasting using AI can eliminate or offset up to 60 per cent of aviation industry's climate impact

  • Aviation
  • 20 January 2021
'Important milestone': StoreDot touts EV batteries able to fully charge in five minutes
'Important milestone': StoreDot touts EV batteries able to fully charge in five minutes

Israeli start-up reveals firm is on 'cusp of achieving a revolution in the EV charging experience' with its fast-charging battery cells

  • Automotive
  • 19 January 2021
Vauxhall faces mass action lawsuit over alleged emissions test 'cheating'
Vauxhall faces mass action lawsuit over alleged emissions test 'cheating'

Up to 600,000 cars sold to UK drivers over a 10-year period may have been installed with defeat devices, according to law firm fronting mass claim

  • Automotive
  • 19 January 2021
Mars and DHL plot £350m UK logistics hubs to slash one million road miles
Mars and DHL plot £350m UK logistics hubs to slash one million road miles

Partnership will see two state-of-the-art warehouses build in East London and Midlands partly powered by on-site solar

  • Transport
  • 15 January 2021
'On the cusp of a driving revolution': Automated driving technologies tipped to shift into the fast lane
'On the cusp of a driving revolution': Automated driving technologies tipped to shift into the fast lane

Forty per cent of UK car sales could have self-driving capabilities by 2035 delivering a £42bn market, according to a new report from Connected Places Catapult, Element Energy, and Cambridge Econometrics

  • Transport
  • 14 January 2021
A fossil fuel demand peak is fast approaching, but will it come soon enough?
A fossil fuel demand peak is fast approaching, but will it come soon enough?

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals

  • Energy
  • 14 January 2021
BYD and ADL to expand UK electric bus manufacturing operations
BYD and ADL to expand UK electric bus manufacturing operations

Firms announce plans to transfer assembly of chassis of electric buses from China to UK, citing need to meet growing demand of zero emission buses

  • Automotive
  • 14 January 2021
Study: Urban air quality improved less during Covid-19 lockdown than previously thought
Study: Urban air quality improved less during Covid-19 lockdown than previously thought

Researchers reveal NO2 emission reductions during first lockdown were lower than previously thought, amidst warnings ozone levels actually increased

  • Science
  • 13 January 2021
TSB banks on new roadmap to deliver net zero operational emissions by 2030
TSB banks on new roadmap to deliver net zero operational emissions by 2030

10-year plan sets out how high profile bank intends to slash emissions generated by company cars, buildings, and boilers

  • Management
  • 13 January 2021
Study: Fleet electrification primed to soar as heavier-duty EVs come online
Study: Fleet electrification primed to soar as heavier-duty EVs come online

Study published this week by US charging network ChargePoint predicts growing range of specialist commercial vehicles will turbocharge corporates' shift away from fossil fuels

  • Automotive
  • 13 January 2021
Despite the hydrogen hype, electricity will drive net zero transport
Despite the hydrogen hype, electricity will drive net zero transport

Cars, buses, trucks, scooters and even planes are going electric, and Britain needs an electricity grid able to cope with it, writes Onward's Ted Christie-Miller

  • Transport
  • 13 January 2021
Hitachi investment to boost GRIDSERVE electric forecourts rollout
Hitachi investment to boost GRIDSERVE electric forecourts rollout

The investment builds on the successful launch of the UK's first electric forecourt last year in Braintree, Essex

  • Transport
  • 12 January 2021
Global Briefing: China unveils long-awaited carbon trading market
Global Briefing: China unveils long-awaited carbon trading market

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push

  • Energy
  • 08 January 2021
Are there turbulent seas ahead for shipping firms as banks back net zero efforts?
Are there turbulent seas ahead for shipping firms as banks back net zero efforts?

Shipping firms face an uncertain decade as they work to align their fleets with IMO carbon intensity targets, the latest briefing from Lloyds List Intelligence warns

  • Transport
  • 08 January 2021
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