London awarded £35.7 million for EV charge points
London has been awarded £35.7m to invest in its electric vehicle charge points. The money, issued by the Government's Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund, will help expand the charging network across all 32 boroughs and the City of London. A further £3m will help...
Weev partners with Park Centre to provide new EV charging stations
Weev has partnered with Park Centre, a retail and leisure facility in Belfast, to provide new public charging stations. The four chargers will form part of Weev's £20m investment in a new public EV charging network. The new network will see 1,500 charging points installed...
Helsinki implements new electric scooter reforms
Helsinki City Centre has implemented new electric scooter reforms. Shared electric scooters and bicycles may only be parked in designated places in the city centre and parts of the inner city. Leaving an electric scooter or bicycle in other places in the area is unequivocally...
Waitrose installs vehicle charging points for staff
Waitrose has announced that its staff will now have exclusive access to electric vehicle charging points following the launch of a newly constructed hub at the grocer’s Bracknell depot. The retailer has installed 14 22kW rapid charge points at the 114,000 sq ft warehouse and...
Polestar reports global volumes for first quarter of 2023
Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC (“Polestar” or the “Company,” Nasdaq: PSNY), the Swedish electric performance car brand, reports its global volumes for the first quarter of 2023. Building on the record 2022 global volumes of over 51,000, the Company delivered approximately 12,000 vehicles in the...
Rubicon partners with City of Miami
Rubicon Technologies has announced that it has entered into an agreement with City of Miami to help enhance its residential waste and recycling services. The agreement will put Rubicon’s smart city software at the heart of Miami’s Department of Solid Waste. Rubicon will help...
Lyft to relaunch Lyft Green
Lyft will be relaunching Lyft Green. This feature will allow riders to request an electric or hybrid vehicle for their next pickup. The service will initially only be available to business travelers in select cities when it begins April 17. Lyft originally launched the service...
Douglas McCauley: Solving our oceans problems
The Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the University of California Santa Barbara works to ensure future generations inherit a healthy ocean. The company combines science with global creativity and collaboration to fulfill that promise. Through combining everyone's awareness of where the ocean is sick with...
Flowbird to supply ticketing infrastructure upgrade in time for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Flowbird has announced that it will be supplying new ticket vending machines (TVMs) to public transport operator RATP in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024. As the city prepares for the world’s largest sporting event, expected to attract millions...
The importance of mapping technologies in the development of autonomous vehicles
The world is taking a huge step towards an autonomous future, and as this revolution comes, vehicles will require a new generation highly accurate and realistic maps to ensure autonomous driving is safer, cleaner and can bring our vision of a less congested world to...
