Jaguar Land Rover has just launched a new scheme for its ‘clients’ (not drivers or customers) to access and pay for charging through the JLR app or with a branded charging card. It’s opening to existing clients, plus any future clients who buy a new or used EV or PHEV (tough to buy a new JLR EV at the moment to be fair) will get access to the scheme. JLR says they’ll get access to over a million chargers across Europe, which is incredibly impressive with recent IEA estimates at just over a million chargers across Europe. Even better, you can get 20% off them all if you subscribe at £8.99 per month.
Charge provider Believ has called on the government to keep the ZEV mandate in place despite calls from the car industry to have it watered down. Believ CEO Guy Bartlett said: “The ZEV mandate gives industry the long-term confidence needed to invest, build and deliver at scale. Weakening it now would risk slowing infrastructure rollout at the very moment private investment is accelerating.”
Motorway service station operator Moto has just launched its third set of own-branded ultra-rapid chargers at Tamworth services on the M42. The jaunty yellow and green 400kW units are emblazoned with Moto CHARGE stickers and complement existing sites at Toddington North and Reading East services. Moto has 12 bays and Gridserve has just opened 24 new ultra-rapid chargers on the site, including provision for eHGVs and caravans.
In other motorway news, if you’re heading past Extra MSA’s Leeds Skelton Lake services on the M1 you’ll notice 10 new Ionity charge points on site, all 400kW units adding to the six ultra-rapid chargers already in place. It’s looking good on the M1 with the new Gridserve hub at Markham Vale too.
Ubitricity says that it’s just finished installing 400 new Shell Recharge-branded lamp post charging points across Bexley, which takes the total number of points it’s looking after on behalf of the London borough to 500. It says the lamp post units can be installed in as little as 30 minutes.
Char.gy is about to start installing 3,000 new residential charge points across West Northamptonshire after winning a bid from the council using the government’s £600m LEVI fund (local electric vehicle infrastructure) that’s splashing the cash across the country to spread EV chargers to areas where residents don’t have access to off-street parking.
TotalEnergies says that it installed 132 new 22kW EV plugs in Islington in June, expanding its network in the borough to 415. The 132 plugs are attached to 66 charge points, which can each facilitate two cars charging. You can charge using pay as you go or the company has subscription options available too.
Plus check out some other stories you might have missed, including CATL's 2,000 battery swap stations in China, the latest additions to the electric car grant, and the government's response to its consultation on the pay per mile tax due in 2028.
