IBM is taking the lead on a project to simplify electric vehicle charging and payment for customers wherever they are in Europe, the company announced this week. The ‘B2B Marketplace’ demonstration setup will allow energy suppliers, carmakers and charging point owners to share and integrate services on one IT platform. The common platform, based on IBM […]
As US electric carmaker Tesla Motors sets the European price for its Model S all-electric sedan, a report for British Gas says that UK companies could save £350,000 a year by going electric with their fleet. According to the report by TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory, for the utility, switching just 10% of a large fleet of between […]
US giant General Electric (GE) says it plans to purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 in the largest single electric vehicle purchase to date. Nearly half of the vehicles (12,000) will be purchased from General Motors, starting with the Chevrolet Volt when it is launched in 2011, as well as from other manufacturers as vehicles become available. The […]
Carmaker BMW has announced plans to invest €400 million over the next three years to produce zero-emission electric cars in Germany. The investment, which was launched by chair of the board of management Norbert Reithofer and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will expand the company’s Leipzig plant to produce the Megacity Vehicle (MCV). “With this vehicle we are […]
Average CO2 emissions from new cars sold in Europe were down 5% last year – the largest fall ever recorded, according to the European Commission. Road transport accounts for around a fifth of all CO2 emission in Europe, of which cars are responsible for over half. The Commission began tracking average CO2 emissions from new cars sold in the […]
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced yesterday that London’s electric vehicle recharging network will launch in spring 2011. Source London will provide 1300 public charging points across the capital by 2013 and create a single network for all electric vehicle drivers. Currently, the city’s 2000 plus electric vehicle drivers have to register in each London borough […]
