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Rural E-Mobility Round Up 23/09/2026 (opens the original)
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This week’s round up will be fairly short and sharp as I’m writing it at the NEC before heading into day 2 of EVCharge Live. Day 1 worked out well. Many planned and impromptu conversations with EV charging friends from across the UK who I generally only see via pixalated screens. From the sessions that I sat in on, the big theme that emerged was the need for much greater attention on the charging experinece across the UK’s public network. Today, this is a highly variable experience for abled bod
Rural E-Mobility Round Up 16/09/2026 (opens the original)
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I’m back again with a selection of annoucements that should give us all encouragement that in a news cycle dominated by negative headlines, positive things are happening in rural communities that stand to benefit significantly from to renewables. Rural County Durham gets funding to investigate community-benefit EV chargingFirst up is news that £55,250 of funding has been awarded to the Rural Design Centre through
Beyond Red Diesel - What Does a Sustainable Future Look Like for Farm Machinery? (opens the original)
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Behind every loaf of bread, bag of spuds, tomatoes, or litre of milk there are tractors and harvesting machinery, and inside their fuel tank is red diesel. It’s exactly the same as the stuff you might fill your car, van or lorry up with, but it contain red dye so the tax man (HMRC in the UK) can identify it to try and minimise theft.It’s no exaggeration to say that red diesel is the life blood of every farm across the UK - and around the world - because without it we’d still be using horses. The
A £2 Fare Cap Is Only Part of the Solution to Reducing Car Dependency in Rural Areas (opens the original)
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Rural E-Mobility News Round-Up - 09/09/2026 (opens the original)
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As the world continues to electrify transport, our inboxes and notification feeds are flooded with alerts. Let’s be honest, such is the speed of these developments - whether they be technology or policy related - it’s impossible to keep up. For my own sanity, and hopefully yours, on a weekly basis I’m curating a short list of e-mobility news items that are relevant to rural and island areas. I’ve been doing this for a while but the results just sit in spreadsheets in Google Drive. Far better tha
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