Tesla founder Elon Musk has revealed the scope of his second company ‘Master Plan’, which will revolve around producing electric, autonomous vehicles for commercial applications.
House builder Willmott Dixon has outlined its efforts to reach ambitious carbon reduction targets for 2020, including renewed efforts to lower supply chain emissions and paying bonuses to employees if they switch to low emission cars.
Ecotricity has backtracked on its initial plans to ask customers to pay £5 for 20 minute charging blocks for electric vehicles and will now offer 30 minute windows for £6 instead.
Ecotricity is to begin charging electric vehicle owners for use of its Electric Highway, the rapid charging network that has been free for the last five years.
Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer at IKEA, has called on the government to introduce “clear policy signals” which he said could unlock “tremendous amounts of decarbonisation”.
Reports have emerged of a possible workplace charging grant to incentivise wider use of electric vehicles (EVs) by businesses around the UK, sparking confusion from the charging point sector.
Utility E.ON and battery storage engineers redT have partnered to install a demonstration solar-plus-storage system at the HQ of warehousing and logistics firm JB Wheaton in Somerset.
