Four SMEs will get £60,000 each if they can prove diesel-free equipment can work on water infrastructure sites.

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has released a guidance pack focused on the safe use and maintenance of batteries fitted to mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs). 

Tata Group’s battery business Agratas has appointed Sir Robert McAlpine for the pre-construction phase of a ‘state-of-the-art’ battery cell manufacturing facility near Bridgwater, in Somerset.

The construction of new electric vehicle battery ‘gigaplant’ has moved a step forward after it won support from the government.

Costain will lead a government-funded feasibility study of an ‘electric roads’ system that will charge battery-powered trucks as they drive.