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Van sales driven by online shopping generates more wealth for Euro economy
Online shopping and van-driving businesses helped to contribute £125.2bn (€145 billion) to the UK economy in 2017 – a 32 per cent increase since 2012.…
Source London opens its 1,000th EV charge point in London
Source London, London’s leading electric vehicle (EV) charge point provider, today opens its latest EV charge point in Hammersmith & Fulham to reach 1,000 charge…
Highways England starts live technology tests to cut commercial vehicle tyre-related incidents
Highways England have today (Tuesday 30 April) announced live tests of a technology that could help reduce commercial vehicles tyre failures by up to 75%…
Ssangyong Motors strengthens dealer franchising team
SsangYong Motors UK has strengthened its dealer franchising team with the appointment of Ian Wilson as Dealer Recruitment Manager. Ian will be based in Scotland…
Road safety better achieved through vehicle design than Direct Vision Standard
Implementation of the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) is not the right way to work towards the Mayor of London’s vision of zero vehicular harm by…
London receives funding for air quality improvement
Five business groups across London will receive a share of £170,000 for projects that will reduce traffic, ease congestion and improve air quality. The funding…
Earn as you drive with Jaguar Land Rover
Drivers will be able to earn cryptocurrency and make payments on the move using innovative connected car services being tested by Jaguar Land Rover. Using…
Google Maps show real-time usage of charge points
Google Maps is now allowing drivers see the real time availability of charging ports in the UK and US. Google Maps now includes up to…
Local road network ‘poor relation’ within transport
Jesse Norman has admitted that the local road network is ‘not in a great state’, adding that the Government must ‘up its game’ to improve…
CV Show 2019 sold out for 5th successive year
The Commercial Vehicle Show 2019, which opens at the Birmingham NEC next Tuesday is sold out for the 5th successive year and, with high numbers of…
Gemini systems partners with Motorcheck to deliver integrated provenance reports via evolution
Gemini Systems, a class-leading Dealer Management Systems provider to the automotive industry, has joined forces with MotorCheck to bring its customers the benefit of data…
Cisco-led consortium launches vehicle-to-grid demonstration project, E-Flex
A consortium of partners led by Cisco has launched E-Flex, a London-based co-innovation project using active electric vehicles (EVs) in real-world fleets to prove the…
Revolutionary new vehicle colour coating system delivers cost and time-saving benefits to fleets
A revolutionary colour coating system engineered to cut vehicle branding costs and the time it takes to remove traditionally applied corporate colours at defleet time…
Airmax Remote’s analysis of telematics data reveals high numbers of business fleet vehicles ‘idling’ during winter and summer months
Airmax Remote, one of the UK’s leading providers of telematics solutions to fleet management companies and corporate fleets, today revealed the results of data collected…
Electric vehicles with lowest co2 emissions
For the same vehicle models with different powertrains, the carbon footprint of the battery-powered E variants is already better than those of the corresponding vehicles…
London’s road charges to be replaced with a more sophisticated scheme
Drivers in London are having to navigate an increasingly complicated patchwork of road charges, according to a new report by Centre for London. The report,…