Europe's largest BESS is live at Hams Hall: 350MW/1,243MWh, operational 20 days after energisation. Building a battery is a project. Running one is a business. HV, O&M and optimisation talent is where the UK is short. Plan hires now. #BESS#EnergyStorage
Mobility startups hire for the next round. Smart ones hire for the next policy date. eVED lands April 2028, EV company car BIK hits 10% in 2030/31. Work back from the date: get your commercial team in place a year early. #FleetManagement#Hiring
E.ON buys Smatrics EnBW Italia as Smatrics retreats to Austria. Berg Insight sees ~35.6m connected chargers in Europe and N. America by 2030. Fewer operators, more hardware. Hire for integration and uptime, not land grabs. #EVCharging
Budget: £100m for cheaper local AC charging from spring 2027, plus a tariff porting taskforce. Hiring read: council-facing site leads and PMs who understand energy retail, not just apps. Start looking now. #EVCharging#Hiring
17,000 open jobs in the UK motor trade. EV skills demand up 83% in a year. A 43,000 EV-tech shortfall projected by 2035.
The Budget did nothing about it.
Dealers who hire for potential and fix retention will win. Everyone else waits.
An estimated 11 million workers, or about 6.5% of the current labor force, might have to jump into entirely different occupations by 2035 as a result of automation and artificial intelligence adoption, according to a report from consulting firm McKinsey & Co. https://t.co/RZWmt9ZR63
Graduate recruitment at Britain’s leading employers has fallen by almost a quarter in three years.
As AI puts some entry-level graduate roles at risk, Grace argues that youth employment policy must focus on the bottom rung of the ladder
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⚡ Europe's EV market grew 33.2% in the first half of 2026. Look closer and there isn't one market at all. There are five.
Check out Kineo's article for more - https://t.co/Hm2OqJ50Qa
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Vinli's capabilities should enable Sofico to translate this data into actionable insights in the form of:
-Predictive maintenance and idling
-Fraud detection and safety compliance
-Direct cost optimisation
#automotive#retail#leasing#AI
SOFICO has bought automotive AI firm Vinli Inc to upgrade its leasing software.
The idea behind this move is to turn massive, unused vehicle and contract data into automated financial decisions.
How? It uses live connected-car data to spot predictive maintenance, fraud, and cost leaks.
Every automotive finance and leasing company is sitting on vast untapped data such as contract records, vehicle diagnostics, and residual value signals.