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Ford provides more information about the upcoming E-Transit Custom

Ford has recently provided more information about the upcoming E-Transit Custom. Ford announced the all new electric van earlier this year in May and it shares a platform with the Volkswagen ID. Buzz. Ford will also be updating the diesel, mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to share the same design as the electric version, with updated front end, interior and more. Ford showed off the new Transit Custom last […]

Weekends with the interface – Best stories of the week

Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on the interface. This week, Volkswagen and Pod Point are ending its free charging at Tesco in the UK, Top Gear turned 20 and Mercedes has seen strong EV growth in the most recent quarter. Free EV charging at Tesco supermarket is stopping next month Pod Point has offered free EV charging at […]

The amount of potential EV customers is at an all time high, but the of the cost of living crisis is harming sales

Here in the UK, one of the country’s major breakdown services, the RAC has recently ran a survey which looked at the state of motoring in 2022. The RAC spoke to 3102 UK drivers and looked at how many people are willing to switch to EVs and how many are planning to have an EV as their next car. The numbers showed that an all time high number of drivers […]

Does UniFi Protect have a monthly fee?

Ubiquiti has been producing and developing UniFi Protect for around four years now. Back when the platform was launched, the only device capable of running the software was the Cloud Key Gen2+. The decision to stop allowing end users to host the software themselves was met with a lot of negativity, but as Ubiquiti released more and more hardware devices it did become less of an issue. The question is […]

Mercedes sees increased EV sales in Q3 2022, double that of last year

Mercedes has revealed that in Q3 2022, it has had rising sales of its all electric vehicles, which includes the vans it makes too. In Q3 2022, Mercedes has seen around 30,000 sales of its pure electric vehicle range, which is expanding all the time, with the company launching many new SUV models. Compared to Q3 2022, the sales have practically doubled, with Mercedes-Benz Vans seeing 3,000 sales of electric vans […]

Audi launches new RS 3 performance edition, with 401bhp

This week, Audi revealed a new limited edition of the RS 3 with a new performance edition, which has even more power than before, with it being louder too. The Audi RS3 is already considered one of the most powerful hot hatchbacks out there, with its only rival being the Mercedes-AMG A45 S. The new RS 3 performance edition isn’t coming to the UK, as it is being produced in […]

macOS Ventura will be released publicly on 24th October

Apple will be releasing the next version of macOS next week, on Monday 24th October. Apple announced all of its new operating systems for 2022 back in June this year and so far, tvOS 16, iOS 16, watchOS 9 and a new update for HomePod have been released. iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 have been delayed. However, starting on Monday next week Apple will be releasing macOS 13 to compatible […]

UK ISPs and LINX saw record data traffic earlier this week

This week, internet traffic hit a new record high at around 09:20pm on Wednesday 19th October. Traffic spiked in data usage across the London Internet Exchange (LINX), and it hit a new record of 7.179Tbps which is around 0.89TB/s. The traffic on major ISPs saw huge spikes also. The main culprit could be down to the return of Premier League football matches on Amazon Prime, which is primarily coming from […]

Free charging at Tesco with Pod Point is coming to an end

EV charging network, Pod Point has announced this week that its free charging program at Tesco supermarkets in the UK is coming to an end. Back at the end of 2019, Volkswagen and Tesco partnered up to provide free EV charging at its supermarkets but only for 7kW fast chargers, at the time there was a small charge for anything faster, at 50kW. However, in the three years since the […]