UKPN speeds towards electric van rollout

Madeleine Cuff
clock • 1 min read

Electricity distributor is trialling eight electric Renault Kangoo vans

UK Power Networks (UKPN), Britain's biggest electricity distributor, is rolling out a new fleet electric vans across its engineering fleet in a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution. UKPN revealed...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Madeleine Cuff
Author spotlight

Madeleine Cuff

View profile
More from Madeleine Cuff

From SEMTA to Enginuity: Engineering skills body rebrands

Inside Enginuity's plan to build a workforce for the future

More on Automotive

'We've gone for boring stuff': How EV brand Polestar slashed CO2 by a quarter per car
Automotive

'We've gone for boring stuff': How EV brand Polestar slashed CO2 by a quarter per car

Fredrika Klarén, head of sustainability at Polestar, takes stock of the luxury Swedish EV-maker’s race against the 'climate clock'

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 29 May 2025 • 13 min read
CCC warns changes to ZEV Mandate 'underestimate' emissions from plug-in hybrid cars
Automotive

CCC warns changes to ZEV Mandate 'underestimate' emissions from plug-in hybrid cars

UK climate advisory body views government's recent tweaks to mandated EV targets changes as 'pragmatic' but also warns they risk encouraging more sales of higher-emission hybrid cars

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 29 May 2025 • 5 min read
Eaton and ChargePoint roll out 'game-changing' EV charging partnership
Automotive

Eaton and ChargePoint roll out 'game-changing' EV charging partnership

Firm behind data centre power management tech and charge point provider link up to streamline deployment of EV infrastructure in the US, Canada, and Europe

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 23 May 2025 • 1 min read