If you own an electric car, you will need to plug in a charging cable to recharge its battery. That much is obvious. The vast majority of EVs are supplied with at least one charging cable, so make ...

When electric cars first gained popularity around a decade ago, it was easy to find free or cheap places to recharge. At worst, you’d pay £10 for a card that gave you access to roadside charging ...

Whatever you think about electric cars, they are the future – or certainly a big part of it. However, battery-powered vehicles are also nothing new. The first EVs hit the roads in the late 19th ...

It is tempting to fully charge the battery in your electric car when possible. After all, you like to leave the house with the battery in your smartphone charged to 100 percent, right? However, while ...

At some point, the batteries that power an electric car may need to be replaced. However, if you’ve just bought a new EV, this really isn’t something to worry about. All batteries lose capacity over ...

The cost of energy is never far from the headlines. In Britain and across Europe, electricity prices spiked after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The ‘energy crisis’ has subsided since, although ...

Along with monthly cost and driving range, charging time is a key issue for anyone considering the switch to an electric car. And there is no way to sugar the pill here: the process does take time.

Are you baffled by batteries, confused by charging speed, perplexed by preconditioning and muddled by miles per kWh? If so, you are not alone. But Motoring Electric is here to help. The rapid adoption ...

The latest statistics from Zapmap reveal the UK had 84,218 public electric car chargers in July 2025 – a total that has more than doubled since 2022. Of these, some 16,937 (20 percent) were rapid or ...

At the time of writing, there are nearly 120,000 public EV charge connectors across the UK. The majority of these are fast chargers, but there has also been a notable rise in the number of rapid ...