ChargePoint to provide EV chargers at Morrisons stores
ChargePoint Services is to install its GeniePoint Network electric vehicle (EV) chargers across all Morrisons supermarkets in the UK.
ChargePoint says its 50-100kW rapid chargers will allow customers to refuel their EV in around 20 minutes.
The firm’s managing director Alex Bamberg says: “By offering another useful local service, customers are provided with choice for grocery, café and comfort stops, and green vehicle refuelling.”
The first chargers will be running by the end of this month and 100 are e
April 1, 2019
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4825 ChargePoint Services is to install its GeniePoint Network electric vehicle (EV) chargers across all Morrisons supermarkets in the UK.
ChargePoint says its 50-100kW rapid chargers will allow customers to refuel their EV in around 20 minutes.
The firm’s managing director Alex Bamberg says: “By offering another useful local service, customers are provided with choice for grocery, café and comfort stops, and green vehicle refuelling.”
The first chargers will be running by the end of this month and 100 are expected to be installed by the end of 2019. Drivers can register online for free on the %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000websitefalsehttps://www.geniepoint.co.uk/ds/Welcometruefalse%>.
ChargePoint is not the only company introducing chargers at UK supermarkets. Last year, 994 Volkswagen announced it %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000plansfalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/sections/general/news/vw-to-install-ev-charging-network-at-uk-tesco-stores/truefalse%> to install more than 2,400 EV chargers at 600 Tesco stores by 2020.
Electricity and gas company SP Group says it will build a network of 1,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargers in Singapore by 2020 to meet public demand.
Wong Kim Yin, SP group chief executive officer, says the initiative will enable greater adoption of EVs, help its customers go green and save energy and cost.
The deployment will include 250 high-powered direct current (DC) chargers which are expected to offer power ratings up to 350kW to support EV models with bigger battery capacities and longer driv
Ride-hailing company Lyft has recalled 3,000 electric bikes from cities in the US because of concerns over their braking systems.
The brands affected are Citi Bike in New York, Capital Bikeshare in Washington, DC, and the Bay Area’s Ford GoBike.
A similar statement on each company’s website says: “We recently received a small number of reports from riders who experienced stronger than expected braking force on the front wheel. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively removing the pedal-assi
Scooter-share firm Bird is to acquire Scoot, a San Francisco-based electric vehicle (EV) company.
Scoot began deploying electric scooters in San Francisco in 2012 and has expanded in Santiago, Chile and Barcelona.
Travis VanderZanden, founder and CEO of Bird says the partnership will work toward replacing “car trips with micro mobility options for all”.
Scoot will continue to operate under the same name but as a subsidiary of Bird.
Bike-share and electric scooter company Lime has launched a ‘free-floating’ car-share service in Seattle and intends to make 1,500 vehicles available in early 2019.
Bloomberg says the company has deployed 50 Lime-branded vehicles and intends to increase this number to 500 by the end of the year.
Users can unlock a LimePod vehicle, a customised two-door Fiat 500, via the company’s app for $1 and are charged 40 cents per minute while driving.
Toby Sun, Lime’s chief executive officer, says the company is a
