After 14 years of running the award-winning Next Green Car website, we have taken the decision to close down the site and focus on our sister electric vehicle (EV) website, Zap-Map. With more than a million EVs now on UK roads, we have decided that our resources are best focused on improving drivers' awareness and understanding of EVs – particularly the UK's public EV charging network. Th ..read more

Select Car Leasing has announced an expansion of its electric vehicle division. The company, which launched a dedicated ‘Select Electric’ web presence in 2019, has doubled the number of specialist staff who have a primary focus on battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). Select Car Leasing has also expanded its ‘Electric Vehicles & Energy’ division, to ensure that all company departments ..read more

New figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and Zap-Map show both new car registrations and the growth of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the month of October. New registrations of pure-electric cars showed a strong year-on-year increase of 23.4%, with 19,900 cars sold. Moreover, new EV charging statistics from Zap-Map show that there are now official ..read more

JustCharge, the community electric vehicle (EV) charging network from JustPark, has gone live with a brand new partnership with leading charge point mapping service Zap-Map. The partnership offers Zap-Map users the ability to find and book JustCharge chargers directly through the Zap-Map app. The partnership goes live as new data from Zap-Map’s annual EV charging survey of more than 4,300 ..read more

An electric charity tuck shop raising money for the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) is making its way across Scotland this half term. The travelling tuck shop, organised by the UK’s leading online car-buying service webuyanycar, will be starting its journey in Elgin today Monday 24th October, stopping at Perth, Stirling, Falkirk, Coatbridge ..read more

Leading EV charge point mapping service Zap-Map is offering users the chance to win a month of free charging. From 9th September to 9th October inclusive, every instance of a charge using the company's cross-network payment service, Zap-Pay, will go into a prize draw. This means the more times users pay for charging using Zap-Pay within this time period, the more likely they are to win ..read more

Electric car brand Polestar is to open a flagship UK ‘Space’ at Battersea Power Station on Friday 14th October 2022, when the Grade II listed building will open its doors to the public for the first time. Polestar Battersea Power Station will be situated on the ground floor near to the building’s southern entrance, which opens onto Malaysia Square and Electric Boulevard, a new pedestr ..read more

According to new research by Citroën UK, families owning a pure-electric vehicle such as a Citroën ë-C4 Electric can complete up to two full weeks of school runs on a single charge – saving more than £26 in the process. Ahead of schools returning in September, Citroën surveyed 2,000 UK parents and found that the average school run is 10.4 miles (5.2 miles each way). With a WLTP-certi ..read more

MFG EV Power, the ultra-rapid charging network belonging to Motor Fuel Group (MFG), is the latest to go live on Zap-Pay, the simple way to pay for EV charging across networks from within Zap-Map, the UK’s leading EV mapping service. The MFG EV Power network – which has ultra-rapid charging devices at locations stretching from Torquay to Wigan – is now fully up and running as part of t ..read more

Automotive manufacturer Ford is developing a prototype robot charging station, which drivers can operate using a smartphone from inside their EV. The technology hopes to enable disabled drivers to stay in the car while charging, or leave the car while the robot looks after the charging instead. Disabled drivers have already identified ease of charging as a key purchase consideration for ele ..read more