NOW firmly established on the British automotive calendar, Fully Charged Outside is becoming the industry event covering green mobility and linked industries. With hundreds of stands welcoming almost 15,000 visitors across three days (03-05 September) at Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre in Hampshire, the show proved a definite success. Two theatres ran talks across a wide range of subjects throughout the…
VANARAMA has signed up to become the official Electric Vehicle Leasing Partner for the EV Rally of Scotland – or EVROS. The leading van specialist leasing broker will back the event, which sees EV drivers cover more than 1,200 miles in electric vehicles over 05-06 November. Starting and ending in Glasgow – the host city for the global climate change conference COP26…
LEASEPLAN is set to showcase the ground-breaking Arrival electric van at the EV Summit, which takes place in Oxford from 01-02 September. The leasing broker funder will have a strong presence at the leading industry event, as LeasePlan’s UK director Alfonso Martinez will also be speaking on the Sustainable Fleets panel. Now in its fourth year, the EV Summit gathers together a…
OVO Energy has made a new home electricity tariff – Drive + Anywhere – available, which promises to slash electric vehicle (EV) charging costs. Following on from a successful trial earlier this year, the Drive + Anywhere tariff offers customers a flat rate of 5p per kWh to charge their car, regardless of time of day. Electricity customers regularly switch to an…
TRIALS involving 30 on-street electric vehicle charge points that are connected to a household’s electricity supply have been launched across Oxford and Cherwell. The project is set to test a solution for those looking at or who already own electric vehicles (EVs), but who have no access to off-street parking to conveniently recharge their car. Funded by Innovate UK and the Office…
STOKE City FC has announced a new signing, with Pink Car Leasing an exclusive new partner. As the football club starts the new season in the Sky Bet Championship, the latest signing is guaranteed to feature prominently throughout the season. A 12 month agreement has been reached between Pink Car Leasing – a trading brand of leasing broker Total Motion – and…
VAN broker specialist, Low Cost Vans, is expanding its recently established rental division by partnering with the UK’s largest vehicle rental supplier, Nexus Vehicle Rental. Based in Neath, South Wales, the broker says its new partnership will allow it to support fleets with the supply vans on short, medium, or long-term agreements. Nexus Vehicle Rental is the UK’s largest rental supply chain,…
COMPANY Car Today’s Innovation Awards 2021 has given Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions its Service, Maintenance & Repair prize, the fleet car magazine praising the company’s proactive downtime management process. Hitachi’s 24-hour, seven days-a-week system has been designed to keep downtime to a minimum, and claims to achieve a 99.6% vehicle availability figure. With vehicle downtime an increasingly serious issue for fleet managers,…