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Willmott Dixon Interiors: Green Building/Infrastructure Project of the Year
…project design enhances indoor air quality, incorporates safe walking paths to public transport hubs and provides cycling facilities. Willmott Dixon Interiors’ environmental managers visited throughout the refurbishment, using the company’s…
Wernick Group: Net-Zero Strategy of the Year
…its Scope 3 emissions for the first time in 2022, covering waste, water, commuting, business travel and logistics transport. Calculations for purchased goods and services are in the pipeline. The…
Global Battery Alliance: Product Innovation of the Year – Solutions, Systems & Software
…transport all mean that the demand for lithium-ion batteries is increasing exponentially. This trend is set to accelerate in the coming decades. This will result in soaring demand for the…
RADIX’s Screw Piles: Product/Packaging Innovation of the Year
…is partly due to material efficiencies and partly due to a decreased need for transport. Real-world uses of the screw piles have resulted in shorter delivery timeframes for projects, with…
Ageas UK: Circular Economy Innovation of the Year
…reused for transporting parts and equipment. Ageas UK is presently extending this strategy to its household claims, acknowledging the added complexity arising from customer preferences for new products. Nevertheless, the…
BT to repurpose ageing cabinets as EV charging points
The telecoms giant, through its start-up and digital innovation arm called Etc., will retrofit cabinets that were previously used to provide copper-based broadband and phone services beginning this autumn. A…
‘Energised by fleet investment’: EV adoption spikes following strongest auto market since 2019
New research has revealed that battery electric vehicle (BEV) uptake reached a record high with more than 300,000 new registrations in 2023, with business fleets spurring demand for low-carbon transport….
FirstGroup builds on sustainability-linked loan package to finance electric buses
Public transport operator FirstGroup has secured a £150m finance package to support the addition of 1,000 electric buses to its fleet, building on an existing £300m sustainability-linked loan….
Report: UK electric car market braced for fierce price war
According to Auto Trader’s latest Road to 2035 report, the surge in demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to intensify competition, with Chinese brands poised to capture a sixth…
Charging ahead: Six top tips for adding electric vehicles to your fleet
EV adoption in business fleets is accelerating. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) confirmed late last year that three in four EV registrations are now attributable to fleets…
Glastonbury’s wind turbine and EV charging in Cornwall: The sustainability success stories of the week
Published every week, this series charts how businesses and sustainability professionals are working to achieve their ‘Mission Possible’ across the campaign’s five key pillars – energy, resources, infrastructure, mobility and…
EV manufacturing: UK ‘risks squandering £106bn opportunity’
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has this week published a new manifesto for growing the EV industry rapidly in the coming years, delivering a tenfold increase in…
One EV registered every minute in the UK
That is according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). According to the report, while hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) volumes increased year-on-year, their market…
Greener fleets: Which industries are leading on EV adoption?
This was the question posed by ALD Automotive LeasePlan, which assessed the adoption of EVs, hybrids and other lower-emission options by corporates across Europe. The results of the analysis, out…
John Lewis Partnership to co-develop major HGV biomethane refuelling station in Kent
The parent company of Waitrose and John Lewis was one of the UK’s earliest corporate adopters of biomethane-powered HGVs and now operates 400 such vehicles. It has operated these vehicles…
Gridserve celebrates 50 new EV charging hubs in 2023
The business announced today (30 August) that, since the beginning of the year, it has begun construction at 50 sites which collectively host more than 400 rapid EV charging points….
UK’s largest public EV charging hub opens in Birmingham
The facility was officially opened by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at the exhibition centre on Thursday (7 September). The £8m project is believed to mark the UK’s biggest private investment deal…
National Grid starts using electric cars to help balance grid
Octopus Energy is offering its customers with electric vehicles (EVs) the chance to switch to a new smart tariff called ‘Intelligent Octopus’. The tariff provides customers with discounted energy and…
Number of public EV charging points in Britain soars year-on-year
This rapid growth in the nation’s EV charging infrastructure stock means that, by August 2025, it is likely that there will be at least 100,000 public EV charging points available….
#SustyTalk: JLR’s François Dossa on collaboration for the EV revolution
#SustyTalk is all about keeping edie’s loyal readers connected to sustainability leaders across the world, whilst reminding us all that sustainability and climate action must go on through the current…
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