Government initiatives, innovations, and legislation

A new paper by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) identifies insufficient charging point buildup as a major barrier to tackling the societal issue of transport poverty.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) says the US state has reached 178,549 public and shared private EV chargers installed statewide compared to a CEC-estimated 120,000 gas nozzles.

Drivers across the UK's Midlands will benefit from more than 16,000 new EV chargers as the region has secured over £40m in government investment.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Revel have opened a new EV charging station at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) that more than doubles the airport’s available EV chargers.

The UK borough of Camden in London is making a multi-million pound investment in on-street, residential EV chargers.

Patchy availability for EV charging plagues large swathes of UK motorways, according to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the UK Parliament.

Austria-based startup Easelink has secured €11.5m in funding to advance automated EV charging standardization.

US networked EV charging solutions provider ChargePoint is opening five ultra-fast charging sites in upstate New York.

School teachers and EV drivers can charge their electric cars with 1,407 sockets now outside schools and colleges in the UK.

The first India-EU workshop on EV charging technology has been held in Pune, India under the EU-India Trade and Technology Council (TTC) working group on green and clean energy technologies.