Sunday 28 February 2010

Electric charging point - models

Reference: http://www.electriccarsite.co.uk/electric-car-charging-points.
This is clearly moving on a pace with a fair number of charging points already in London.
Other UK resource has a searchable map of charging points.
In the news Government puts up £30m for electric car chargers Independent





Electromotive has already installed their system in the City of Westminster 

Friday 12 February 2010

The Right Track - High Speed 2 (HS-2) paper by Bow Group





This is a good read. The proposed accelerated timetable over current HMG plans is good as is the intent to take the route via a Heathrow Hub and to maximise regenerative benefit to UK as a whole.

The Right Track – a 100 page report by the Bow Group brings together a range of option studies on HS-2 to create a commentary on ‘Delivering the Conservatives‘ Vision for High Speed Rail in UK. This envisages a start in 2015, 2 years earlier than the current government’s plans. A copy of the report can be found here