All Electric articles
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NewsPartnership with Allstar and The Electric Car Scheme brings charging savings for company-car drivers
A collaboration between fuel-card firm Allstar and The Electric Car Scheme, a firm that provides Salary Sacrifice cars to corporate customers, could save drivers up to £1,000 per year.
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NewsBe.EV chief exec on the ‘death’ of the forecourt: “This was never an attempt to knock petrol stations”
Forecourt Trader recently published an opinion column responding to claims from chargepoint firm Be.EV that it is time to “call in the undertakers” for petrol stations. After reading that op-ed, Be.EV’s chief executive, Asif Ghafoor, asked if we’d like to interview him.
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NewsDrivers can win one million Nectar points with Smart Charge
Drivers who use Sainsbury’s Smart Charge ultra-rapid EV charging network will be automatically entered into a draw for the chance to win one million Nectar points, worth at least £5,000.
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NewsZapmap launches charge card
Zapmap has launched the Zapmap charging card, described as a simple way for EV drivers to pay for charging.
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News£33m project to swap diesel vehicles for electric and plug-in hybrid fleet
Southern Water have awarded a £33m five-year contract to Novuna Vehicle Solutions to transition its existing fleet of diesel vans and company cars to electric and plug-in hybrids.
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NewsWest Sussex to get 30 more on-street chargers
Thirty on-street EV chargers are to be installed in a deal between Connected Kerb and West Sussex County Council.
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NewsEV chargers should be classified as Critical Infrastructure to stop cable theft, says chargepoint boss
The chief executive of the UK’s leading chargepoint firm has said the government should classify public chargers as “critical infrastructure” to tackle the organised criminals targeting cables for their scrap metal.
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News£6.5bn worth of discounts help EVs make up one in four new cars
Almost one in four new cars registered in June was electric, though this achievement came at a cost: over the last 18 months, car makers have knocked an “unsustainable” £6.5bn off EV list prices.
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NewsMore than 10% of fleets have no EVs
New research reveals that nearly a third of UK fleets have 25% or fewer EVs in operation, and 11% have not introduced any EVs at all.
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NewsSteel frames in place on Agratas battery manufacturing site
The first steel frames on the Agratas site near Bridgwater, Somerset, are now in place, marking a major milestone in the construction of the UK’s flagship battery manufacturing facility.
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NewsScottish Water adds fully electric HGV to its fleet
Scottish Water’s first fully electric HGV has hit the streets of Glasgow to provide waste water services to customers in the city.
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NewsHalf-year chargepoint installation figures show strong growth in ultra-rapid hubs
Ultra-rapid EV charging hubs – defined as a group of six or more chargers delivering electricity at 150kW or more – are growing in number more quickly than any other type of chargepoint installation, according to an analysis of the first six months of 2025.
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NewsDundee becomes BP Pulse’s latest dedicated EV hub
BP Pulse has unveiled its latest dedicated electric vehicle charging hub, on the site of a former car wash on Dundee’s Kingsway bypass.
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NewsUber in new partnership to help boost access to EV chargers
Uber and C40 Cities have agreed to an international partnership to help cities – including London – significantly boost access to charging infrastructure.
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NewsOctopus and BYD to introduce all-inclusive EV and charging bundle
Octopus Energy has joined forces with electric car maker BYD to launch the Power Pack Bundle – described as the UK’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bundle.
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NewsMFG accelerates its London EV charging network
MFG is accelerating the expansion of its London EV charging network with new ultra rapid hubs and expansions to three existing hubs.
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OtherCOMMENT: Reports of the death of the petrol station are greatly exaggerated
When rumours began circulating that he had passed away, Mark Twain politely dismissed such talk as being “greatly exaggerated”. Over 100 years later, the same comment could be made about an EV chargepoint firm’s recent pronouncement on the petrol station.
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NewsCall in the undertakers for petrol stations, says Be.EV
UK petrol stations are facing extinction, according to EV charging company Be.EV, which points to research revealing that there will be nowhere to fill up ICE vehicles by 2038.
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NewsFormer petrol station becomes an EV charging hub
Turning old petrol stations over to EV chargepoints is something of a dream for environmentalists, but that dream became reality once more this week with the opening of a new charging hub called the Manchester Charging Oasis.
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NewsCutting VAT on public charging would boost EV uptake, survey suggests
New research suggests that cutting the rate of VAT on public charging from 20%, to the 5% applied to home electricity would make 49% of drivers switch to electric cars sooner.