New global electric vehicle initiative launched

A new business campaign designed to fast-track the uptake of electric vehicles (EV) and infrastructure has been launched by The Climate Group, a non-profit organisation that works with business and government to promote clean technologies and policies.

Baidu, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Heathrow Airport, HP Inc., IKEA Group, LeasePlan, METRO AG, PG&E, Unilever, Vattenfall are the first 10 members of EV100, an initiative to encourage global business commitments on electric transport, with members swapping their diesel/petrol vehicle fleets to electric fleets and/or installing electric battery charging infrastructure by 2030.

“We want to make electric transport the new normal,” said Helen C...