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North Yorkshire Council is set to release a new electric vehicle (EV) strategy aiming to tackle rural charging limitations.

Across the UK, there has been increasing interest in electric vehicle (EV) charging tariffs in a bid to attract new customers.

Stagecoach announced plans on April 6 to invest £37.2 million in a new fleet of 170 electric buses for Stockport. It is the company’s largest ever electric bus order. 

Hackney Council has signed a contract with Zest to rollout 2,500 chargepoints throughout the borough, creating the most concentrated network of electric vehicle (EV)  chargers within a local authority in the UK.

EV manufacturer BYD has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Octopus Electric Vehicles to supply 5,000 new EVs over the next three years.

EV campaign group FairCharge and 44 UK MPs have penned an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor of the exchequer, to bring VAT rates for on-street EV charging level with home charging in the upcoming Spring Budget.

On-street EV charging company Char.gy has confirmed it installed 500 chargepoints in the previous four weeks.

It’s been a busy week for the EV industry, with the development of new technologies, an EV start-up offering its drivers shares of the company and worries of slow vehicle rollout damaging the currently booming second-hand EV market.

Smart electric vehicle (EV) charging provider, Easee, has announced the installation of over half a million EV chargers – a figure the company plans to triple by the end of 2023.

Yorkshire Water has enlisted UK Power Networks Services to install and maintain 1,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints across its sites and employees' homes to charge its 1,450 EV fleet.