The ICE Age is over, let’s evolve

If you want to stay connected check our new magazine, EVolution

The days of the internal combustion engine (ICE) being the powertrain for road vehicles are numbered. The ‘ICE Age’ is over, welcome to the ‘EV Era’. Car manufacturers and governments around the world are making a commitment to the electrification of the vehicle fleet over the next decade. For example, it is UK government policy that sales of ICE cars will come to an end in 2030. The transition from ICE to electric vehicles and other zero-emission vehicle types, such as hydrogen, is picking up speed, with car manufacturers now offering drivers a growing range of hybrid and pure-electric models in their showrooms.

As the population of zero-emission vehicles grows, there will be need to dramatically increase the infrastructure required to fuel them in a variety of settings: at home; at the workplace; on the kerbside; in public car parks; and on the motorway network. People and organisations planning, building and managing parking facilities will be key players in the implementation and provision of EV charging infrastructure. The need to integrate energy utilities into parking areas and to connect with chargepoint networks requires parking professionals to expand their already wide-ranging skillsets.

The transition to zero-emission vehicles is creating a need for parking professionals to obtain new knowledge and share intelligence on policy, business and technology trends. To meet this need, Parking Review magazine has been devoting space to EV charging. Over the past year so, this coverage has been appearing on a new website called www.EVolutionMagazine.co.uk

Now, in this month's print edition of Parking Review, you will find the first print edition of the EVolution magazine. There is a growing range of magazines and websites covering EVs, but they tend to focus on the vehicles. What makes EVolution different is that it is the first journal truly dedicated to covering the emerging business of developing the infrastructure needed to support the transition to zero-emission vehicles.

Over the coming year, further editions of EVolution magazine will be distributed with Parking Review and at key events such as our upcoming Mobility Hubs 2022 conference, which is being held in London on 25 May. So now you can stay up-to-date with the latest developments in print, online and in person.

Everything is connected.

Mark Moran is editor of Parking Review and EVolution