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Batteries: Mining the sea bed
The rapid increase and use of electric vehicles has seen an exponential demand for materials to make batteries, and cobalt, a rare metal that can…
Alternative drives: ‘Hydrogen is underestimated’
Did you know that Germany has a better infrastructure of hydrogen filling stations than modern, environmentally conscious California? Despite this, only 392 vehicles with fuel…
Allison Transmission software cuts fuel consumption by 8.85%
Two Mercedes-Benz Econic refuse collection vehicles (RCVs) retrofitted with Allison Transmission’s latest FuelSense® 2.0 software have gained fuel savings of 8.85%. This demonstrates how mid-life…
Subscription economy yet to reach fleet industry
UK businesses continue to be wedded to outdated asset ownership models, and are therefore missing out on the benefits of the subscription economy according to…
New Supply Chain Risk Management Certificate
The IRM is delighted to announce the addition of the new Supply Chain Risk Management Certificate to our portfolio of qualifications. This qualification introduces the…
Licence Check announces a record breaking quarter
Licence Check, the UK’s fastest growing provider of fleet licence checking and compliance services, has chalked up another set of record results in terms of…
Price comparison websites hitting drivers with hidden costs
Drivers are outraged as a new report sheds light on the practices price comparison websites are implementing to persuade vulnerable young drivers to part with…
Bad driving is still the biggest cause of UK road accidents
Bad driving is the number one reason for road accidents in the UK, according to research led by telematics supplier Masternaut. The report analysed 192,503,863…
MOT garages increasingly funded by merchant cash advances
365 Business Finance, a financial provider to small and medium sized companies, has revealed that MOT garages are among the top ten business categories taking…
Stagecoach drives towards a ‘cloud-first’ enabled network strategy
Stagecoach, the UK’s biggest bus and coach operator, has announced it is replacing its legacy WAN infrastructure with a new software-defined network (SD-WAN) based architecture…
New Vattenfall charging points in Test Valley
Drivers of electric vehicles will be able to stop off and charge up at eight new locations across Test Valley by the end of the…
Original launch Land Rover returns to the road
After playing a starring role in Land Rover’s 70th anniversary celebrations last year, the ‘missing’ original launch Land Rover demonstration vehicle from the 1948 Amsterdam…
Theo – the video enabled smart in-car companion
Connectivity in cars could prevent 25,000 serious accidents in the coming decade and save 2,500 lives[i] – but motorists don’t have to wait. Now available on Amazon, Theo is…
Isuzu D-Max saves driver in combine crash
A Yorkshire farm manager recently found out just how tough an Isuzu truck can be, when his Isuzu D-Max Blade was involved in a crash…
Expanding Ogilvie Fleet scoops further industry awards success
Expanding Ogilvie Fleet has underlined its industry-leading position with another title – the Customer Service trophy in the annual awards from trade publication BusinessCar. The…
Delivering sustainable road transport
As Parliament shuts for a five-week general election campaign, the BVRLA is calling for the next Government to back the fleet sector by confirming the…

