Electric Vehicles

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week

UK-based EV fleet and battery storage specialist announces £600m injection from investment firm KKR and a further £270m of equity from Infracapital

New 'Gigahub' in Birmingham officially opened, on the same day as government invites local authorities to bid for share of £343m electric vehicle charging fund

Octopus customers exporting power to the grid will now receive 15p/kWh, putting average household with an EV and solar panels on track to earn £150 a year

Projects covering everything from electric motorbikes to hydrogen tractors to share over £50m in government funding

Latest figures from New AutoMotive's Electric Car Count reveal number of electric cars registered in August up 77 per cent year-on-year

Reports over the weekend indicate Mini owner BMW is poised to announce major deal which would secure production of new zero emission Minis at its Oxford factory.

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Energy giant confirms it has acquired EV charge point installation specialist for undisclosed sum

UK manufacturing of battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid models nearly doubles in the first seven months of the year to over 200,000 units