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VW plans to cut around 2,000 jobs while delaying the (already delayed) new software architecture due to be used in upcoming Porsche and Audi EVs.

New driving law changes come at a 'crucial point' for electric car owners dealing with 'challenges'

bp boosts EV charging network with $100 million order of Tesla ultra-fast chargers.

DUDLEY Council is to install 37 new on-street electric vehicle charging points across the borough starting later this year.

Britain’s carmakers deliver best September since 2020 but action needed to protect EV exports.

Ford Cuts EV Investment After Losing $36,000 On Every EV Sold In Q3.

Volkswagen sticks to EV targets, pricing despite knock to demand.

Mercedes says 'brutal' EV market will pressure car sales margins.

Wharfedale Hospital's solar panel car park canopy to save trust £75,000.

New solar power bus screens fitted in Milton Keynes.

‘A bright future for the plant’: Giant solar space farm could be orbiting Earth by 2035.

Cardiff Airport: Hotel solar panels a danger to aircraft, council says.

Worcester City Council is to spend £521,000 installing the panels on the roof of St Martin's Gate car park in City Walls Road.

Thurrock Council was left with debts of about £1.5bn following a series of failed investments in solar farms.

Europe’s green tech start-ups face up-hill battle accessing financing and public procurements.

BP Ventures to put 90% of investments into green tech, says boss.

Pavegen, a new and quirky renewable energy company, has developed a unique technology that can convert footsteps into electricity.

Wearable technology can generate electricity from the user’s body heat, sweat and motion, which makes it a highly sustainable solution.

A driver has told how he was "kidnapped" by his runaway electric car and forced to dodge red lights and roundabouts.

The last two weeks in the UK have been dramatic for those watching the electric vehicle market.

Hyundai’s future EVs will also have Tesla’s EV charging port.--

Electric car drivers could face 7,500-hour wait at rapid charging stations in EV chaos.

Street lamps with EV chargers and Wi-fi to be trialled in Oxfordshire.

John Lewis Financial Services has temporarily stopped offering insurance to drivers of electric vehicles – a decision made by its underwriter Covéa.

Plans submitted for EV chargers at depot for electric bus fleet.

Solar farm to power 650 homes rejected due to visual impact on South Cambridgeshire countryside

Huge solar farm outside Gloucester scrapped after wave of objections from residents.

Lincolnshire solar farms plans should be rejected – councillors.

JBM Solar has launched a consultation for a 320MW solar project in Yorkshire, in the UK.

Global carbon emissions from electric power may peak this year, report says.

Sales of second-hand electric vehicles (EV) rose by more than 80% in the three months to June.

Used EV values could collapse due to fleet 'dumping'

The all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz minibus has been a success story for the European automaker, helping VW overtake Tesla in the EV sales war in Germany in the first seven months of the year.

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast said it expects to start trading on the Nasdaq as soon as next week.

Rivian rules out price cuts in response to EV rivals.

BMW i7 Protection: an armoured sanctuary of an EV.

Great Yarmouth's MP has cut a ribbon to launch the town's first ultra-fast electric vehicle charging points.

Rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging points are coming to a Scartho service station.

A company wants to create a solar farm the size of a large Cornish village which would generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 8,000 homes.

An attempt to block a solar farm at the High Court has failed.

Plans for new solar farm in Darlington countryside approve despite 'take over' concerns.

A new solar farm is proposed to be built on farmland next to a small Cambridgeshire village.

Solar panels have been fitted to the roof of an archive centre in Brighton 10 years after it opened.

Green tech start-up Stabl Energy secures €15M for battery storage innovation.

UK Space Agency reveals first recipients of £20m International Bilateral Fund investments and earmarks £15m for Earth monitoring technologies.

This week we spoke to Sophie Adams-

Head Of Consumer Experience at (OZEV) Office For Zero Emissions Vehicles, at (DFT) Department For Transport.

Sophie told us all about what (OZEV) do, the demand increase for grants over the last 18 months, the incentives that are helping contribute to kick start the EV movement and how OZEV are improving their consumer experience as well as their future schemes and incentives.

All information to apply for a grant or to check your eligibility can be accessed here - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-zero-emission-vehicles

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