Electric Cars

MG ZS EV is ‘first truly affordable family electric car’

The ZS EV is priced from £21,495, but only for the first 1,000 orders. MG is aiming to 'bring zero-emissions motoring within everyone's reach'.

All new UK rapid chargepoints MUST accept one-off payments by 2020

Government says that it wants to see all newly installed rapid and higher powered chargepoints to provide debit or credit card payments by spring 2020.

Plug and pay: UK’s largest EV rapid-charge network goes contactless

BP Chargemaster is offering contactless payment on all its new 50kW and 150kW electric car chargers, and retro-fitting the tech to existing EV charge points

UK electric car registrations UP 95 percent between 2016 and 2018

New research has revealed that registrations of electric and hybrid cars have risen 95 percent, between 2016 and 2018

All new government-funded home chargers must be ‘smart’

From 1 July 2019, all electric car home chargers backed by the government Electric Vehicle Homecharge scheme must be 'smart'.

Motorists spend £56,000 on petrol during their lifetime

The average motorist will spend more than £56,000 on petrol during their lifetime, which might explain why 40 percent of drivers are considering an EV.

Electric shock: EVs cost 14 percent more to insure

Research by Vantage Leasing shows that electric cars cost an average of 14 percent more to insure than their petrol or diesel equivalents.

London council installs EV charging points in LAMP POSTS

Barnet council has installed 40 electric car charging points in lamp posts. A second set of 40 CityEV charge points will be added in the autumn

Government cars to be electric by 2030, says transport secretary

The transport secretary has written to every government department to remind them of the pledge to move towards a 100 percent electric fleet by 2030.

The UK’s most powerful EV charger is now open

Ionity's 350kW electric car charging station in Kent is the first of 40 high-power sites for the UK, each with up to six charge-points.