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MOT garages increasingly funded by merchant...

Nov 12, 2019Comments off

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 up merchant cash advances to expand. According to the direct lender,

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Stagecoach drives towards a ‘cloud-firstâ...

Nov 12, 2019Comments off

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 provided by Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider.

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New Vattenfall charging points in Test Vall...

Nov 11, 2019Comments off

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 month. A total of 18 new electric vehicle charging points will

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Original launch Land Rover returns to the r...

Nov 11, 2019Comments off

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 Motor Show has returned to the road for the first time

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Theo – the video enabled smart in-car com...

Nov 08, 2019Comments off

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 a smart, video-enabled device with a complete package of support services

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Isuzu D-Max saves driver in combine crash

Nov 08, 2019Comments off

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 with a combine harvester. Terry Metson, who used the vehicle every

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Expanding Ogilvie Fleet scoops further indu...

Nov 08, 2019Comments off

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 trophy is the second industry award that they have collected in

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Delivering sustainable road transport

Nov 08, 2019Comments off

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 long-term status of its plug-in vehicle grants to move the country

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EV batteries could be ‘huge waste mou...

Nov 07, 2019Comments off

The development and industrialisation of recycling technologies for end-of-life EV batteries is currently being outpaced by a boom of EV uptake, paving the way for a “huge waste management problem” in decades to come. That is

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Petrol vehicles top list for next car purch...

Nov 07, 2019Comments off

Despite the environment being the biggest driver for switching to an electric vehicle, new research by digital transformation agency, Somo, has identified that the interest in petrol vehicles is not declining. In fact, over half would