Just Stop Oil M25 protest sees Police officer injured

This is after protestors climbed onto the gantry of London’s ring road

Nationwide injunction passed to stop protestors blocking roads

The injunction has been granted by National Highways in light of the disruption caused by Insulate Britain

Insulate Britain mob ignores court injunction by blocking Heathrow Airport junction

Nearly 52 people blocked the M25 in breach of the injunction granted by the High Court last Tuesday

M25 Protestors opposed by 60% of Brits

The Insulate Britain protestors have blocked the motorway again for the fifth time in eight days, leading to heavy public criticism

Highways England releases net zero roadmap – but neglects to suggest less driving could help cut emissions

At the heart of its strategy is achieving net zero for its own operations by 2030, delivering net zero road maintenance and construction by 2040 and an aim to ‘support’ net zero travel on its roads by 2050

New wind turbine tech gets revved up by passing vehicles

Devecitech’s ENLIL technology takes up very little space and can generate wind energy in a number of ways

LEDs light up UK motorway

  More than 1,600 street lights have been replaced with energy efficient ones at a UK motorway. The improvement works took place on the M62 near Huddersfield and Halifax – junction 22 to 25 – and the M621 near Leeds. The new lights are believed to be 53% more efficient, saving the equivalent energy of […]

Dutch trial “glow in the dark” motorway

The images could be straight out of sci-fi reboot Tron – but these glowing roads are far from fictional. The painted lines have just gone on trial in the Netherlands on a 500-metre stretch of motorway in the city of Oss, replacing traditional streetlights. The “glow in the dark” roads harvest solar power during the […]

700 mile road trip puts electric car through paces

Two students from Durham University have put an electric car through its paces by taking it on a 700-mile road trip. Sergio Roldan (pictured left) and Ioannis Sarrigiannis planned the round trip from Durham to Cardiff and back as part of a research project called the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR). The journey with a regular […]

Charge cars for free on the motorway

Motorway service stations will soon be host to an “electric highway” with the opening of a network of electric car charging points. Welcome Break is installing electric vehicle (EV) points at its 27 service stations.Every post will be powered with 100% green energy made at Ecotricity’s wind and solar parks across the UK. Rod McKie, […]