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1 week ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
New research project highlights progress made so far as well as how some emergency services fleets are meeting the challenge.
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1 week ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
Leapmotor enters the sub-£20,000 fully-electric car arena with a technology-packed city car.
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4 weeks ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
By Andrew Ryan | 28 March 2025 A six-month trial to transformed underutilised space at Waterloo Station, London, into a sustainable freight hub to cut emissions and congestion has been launched.
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4 weeks ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
Fleet charging solution provider Fleete has started construction on a dedicated commercial vehicle charging hub in the Port of Tilbury. The project, which should be completed in December, is the first works funded by the UK Government under the Thames Freeport seed capital programme, which advances clean energy technology crucial to the Port of Tilbury’s drive toward net zero.
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4 weeks ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
Training and compliance supplier TTC Group has seen a 74% year-on-year increase in the number of e-learning driver training sessions. More than 54,000 hours were completed in 2024, including Driver Certificate of Professions Competence (CPC). The breadth of companies choosing targeted e-driver training varied, from businesses with fewer than one hundred vehicles to large vehicles managing thousands, many of which operate a blended fleet.
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1 month ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
By Andrew Ryan | 24 March 2025 Electric vehicle drivers who use public charging points are achieving as little as 37% of the maximum charging speed promised, according to research by What Car?. The media brand took a variety of cars to 15 EV charging stations – operated by five different networks – across England to fund out how the speed a vehicle can charge varied in the real-world.
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1 month ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
Electrification and risk management continue to be at the top of the agenda for almost all fleet decision-makers, and these were among the hot topics discussed at the Fleet News Awards roundtable earlier this month. The event, sponsored by sopp+sopp, featured fleet decision-makers who were shortlisted for this year’s Fleet News Awards. During the discussion, they shared experiences and best practice advice to help their peers meet many of the challenges they faced.
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1 month ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
By Andrew Ryan | 17 March 2025 A major project to establish whether electric road freight can become commercially viable is being launched next week. Project Jolt (Joint Operator Logistics Trial) involves academia working with industry to understand how the diesel lorry can be replaced with zero emission vehicles – 44-tonne trucks alone are responsible for 5% of the Uk’s greenhouse gasses.
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1 month ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
Freight organisations should adopt new vehicle technologies and processes to create a logistics system that benefits businesses, residents and the environment, says a new study. The report, published by Cross River Partnership, has been delivered through the organisation’s Defra-funded Smarter Green Logistics programme, which aims to minimise the impact of freight on noise, air quality, traffic and pavement space across London.
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1 month ago | 
fleetnews.co.uk | Andrew Ryan
By Andrew Ryan | 11 March 2025 Nissan is to begin studying the readiness of the UK to introduce autonomous driving (AD) systems after completing its latest AD research project. The manufacturer was the technical lead on the 21-month evolvAD project, which saw the five partners – Nissan, Connected Places Catapult, Humanising Autonomy, SBD Automotive and TRL – work to technically support UK supply chain readiness for future mass deployment of AD technologies.
