From our friends across the pond at
Printweek, British printing company
RCS has installed the UK’s first privately owned electric vehicle recharging station. Located at the company’s Retford, Nottinghamshire, plant, the charger was originally designed to power RCS’s own fleet of sales and delivery vehicles (the company has invested in six electrically powered vehicles), but will also serve as one of the Midlands’ “Plugged-in Places,” an EV charging network that can be used by any member of the public for free. (The charger was 40% funded by the UK government’s Plugged-In Places program.)
Rapid-charging reduces electric-vehicle charging times from 8 hours via regular alternating current (AC) to as little as 15 to 30 minutes, enabling drivers to quickly recharge and keep driving.
The electric vehicles were part of a larger environmental initiative on the part of RCS that also saw the company get both ISO4001- and FSC-certified.
Our
Environmental Innovation Awards—for which we are now
accepting applications, I hasten to add—is only open to North American companies, but initiatives like this are what we have in mind.