Infrastructure
Major UK construction firm installs car chargers at all sites and offices to encourage staff to switch
UK construction firm Willmott Dixon has unveiled plans to install electric car chargers at all of its sites and offices. The contractor is working with EV charge point provider Rolec to install charging points at more than 100 locations this year for the 300 staff who...
Manchester Mobility Hub prioritises streets for people, but locals call it a car park with a glossy spin
A planning application for an urban mobility hub in Ancoats area of Manchester in north west England has been submitted, which would see cycle spaces and an electric car club brought to the Manchester neighbourhood. The planned hub is a joint venture between...
Gridserve takes over the UK’s Electric Highway charging network
Ecotricity has confirmed the sale of its Electric Highway national charging network to Gridserve. The sale comes after Gridserve and Ecotricity recently announced a partnership, with the goal of upgrading the UK’s charging infrastructure. Ecotricity started developing...
Hitachi and Arrival offer European bus operators competitive total cost of ownership electric packages
Electric vehicle developer Arrival and Hitachi Europe have announced a partnership to deliver electric bus and infrastructure solutions across Europe. The partnership combines Hitachi’s digital and operational capabilities with Arrival’s products. The two companies...
Toyota reveals plan to establish city scale hydrogen societies across Japan
Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and Toyota Motor Corporation have outlined plans to build a city scale testbed for hydrogen technologies. Similar in concept, but ultimately larger than Toyota’s already announced Woven City project, the aim at Fukushima is to establish a...
Joby plans to build out “skyports” at car park rooftops across the US
Californian electric vertical take-off aircraft developer Joby Aviation has announced a partnership with major US parking company REEF Technology to develop takeoff and landing sites for its aerial ridesharing service, which it expects to launch in 2024. REEF’s assets...
India’s Medicine from the Sky project sets pathway for beyond visual line of sight drone trials
India's on-demand delivery platform Dunzo is to pilot the delivery of medicines via drones in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Supporting the government’s 'Medicine from the Sky' project, the impetus, Dunzo said, is to enable medical deliveries including...
Chinese develop electric school bus with bi-directional charging
BYD, China’s leading electric bus maker, has introduced an 84-seat battery-electric school bus that supports bi-directional charging. Potentially, BYD says, the bus could be charged overnight when energy demand is low and then help power the classroom during school...
Renault and Plug Power joint venture to develop commercial vehicle hydrogen ecosystem
Renault Group and US hydrogen and fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power Inc have formed a joint venture called HYVIA to offer a “complete ecosystem” for fuel cell powered light commercial vans with green hydrogen and refuelling stations across Europe. HYVIA is equally...
First rental e-scooters hit London’s streets for riders who pass safety test
Lime has deployed 200 of its new Gen4 e-scooters across London, working with Transport for London (TfL) and London Councils to launch the UK’s largest for-hire e-scooter trial. Lime, alongside TIER and DOTT, were last month announced as the winning e-scooter operators...
Greek island partners with VW in ambitious plan to decarbonise transport and energy
Volkswagen has supplied eight electric cars to the Greek island of Astypalea, marking an early milestone in an ambitious trial to decarbonise the island's transport and energy systems. Through the initiative, the Greek government hopes to develop a blueprint that it...
Dutch transport companies order 50-ton hydrogen trucks
US based Hyzon Motors, a leading global supplier of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, is to supply 20, 50-ton hydrogen trucks to Dutch transport companies Jan Bakker and Millenaar & van Schaik. Hyzon expects to begin delivering vehicles...
UK construction company trials Beyond Visual Line of Sight drone flight
UK drone technology developer sees.ai has teamed up with construction and infrastructure company Skanska in a live test of a remotely operated drone. Last month, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted sees.ai the country’s first approval to trial routine...
Rome congestion trial pioneers “data-only” vision technology overcoming smart city privacy issues
Sony Europe is leading a mobility monitoring trial in Rome incorporating embedded vision sensors with on-board artificial intelligence. The project is testing the paradigm that surveillance cameras are no longer going to produce video but data, enabled by millisecond...
Electric Google Street View Jag doubles up as Dublin mobile air quality sensor
Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Google to integrate the all-electric Jaguar I-PACE with air quality measuring sensors and Street View mapping technology. The I-PACE is the first all-electric Google Street View vehicle and will be used to measure street-by-street...
Audi charging hub concept largely independent of local grid capacity
Audi is developing a concept to develop modular electric vehicle charging hubs incorporating second life batteries to reduce loads on the power grid. A pilot project, launching later in the year, will provide a practical test for a possible roll-out across Germany....
New model suggests the economics of rural charging infrastructure can work
The UK’s Connected Kerb is to install electric vehicle chargers to deliver sustainable, affordable and accessible charging infrastructure to hard-to-reach UK communities. The “first-of-a-kind” scheme, in partnership with Kent County Council, offers a blueprint for...
Oxford Superhub sets blueprint for fast, convenient, omnipresent EV charging
Fastned, the Dutch electric vehicle fast charging company, has joined up with UK-based Pivot Power, Tesla Superchargers and Wenea, to build Europe’s most powerful EV charging Superhub in Oxford. The Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO) will initially feature 38 fast and...
UK energy regulator kick starts market in EV infrastructure grid connections
The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem is investing £300 million to kick start investment in the cabling, substations and other infrastructure needed to support the country’s EV charging sector. The investment will support installation of 1,800 ultra-rapid charge points at...
Swedish researchers suggest buildings could become giant renewable energy storage cells
Researchers from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have released outline details of a new concept for rechargeable batteries made of cement. The concept could allow buildings to become giant renewable...
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