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Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP opened the first public electric car charging station in Australia yesterday.
The on-street charging spot is located in Derby Place, Glebe. It is managed by ChargePoint and installed by Visionstream. The station uses 100 per cent Origin GreenPower and can recharge converted plug-in hybrids such as a Toyota Prius in three hours.
Ms Moore said that Sydney has joined other cities around the world that have installed electric vehicle charging stations, such as Amsterdam, Houston, San Francisco, London and Vancouver. Over 700,000 vehicles travel throughout the Local Government Area in Sydney every day, contributing significantly to [...]

Carrentals.co.uk has released guidelines with advice for football fans making the journey to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The leading car rental comparison site asked fans to carefully plan and prepare before leaving home in order to ensure the best time possible at the World Cup finals. Travellers from all across the globe will meet in South Africa next month to watch their teams compete.
The Carrentals.co.uk guidelines are intended for World Cup fans who will watch each game live. Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, said that fans making their way to South Africa in June can ensure a [...]

Having just posted better quarterly results than expected, Marriott International, owners of the biggest hotel brand in America, has announced that it will be doubling the number of hotels it has in China. The company proposes to do this over the next five years.
By the end of this year, Marriott said that it will increase the number of hotels it currently runs in China from 46 to 60. Within five years it hopes to have opened 90. If this happens, then China will become the hotelier’s second-largest market outside of the US. The plans were outlined by Marriott’s president, Arne [...]

As the strike by British Airways cabin crew enters its second day, thousands of passengers face travel disruption. Although services out of Gatwick and London City Airport were unaffected, BA said that it had managed to fly 50 per cent of its short-haul flights out of Heathrow and 60 per cent of its long-haul operations.
The flag-carrier is accusing trade union Unite of failing to return to the negotiating table to come to a solution. Talks between the airline and the union were brought to a dramatic end over the weekend, when protesters stormed the meeting at Acas. BA has since [...]

2008 winners of the best car hire website of the year at the Travolution Awards, Carrentals.co.uk, is offering travellers to the South African World Cup finals some top tips for staying safe. Simple things like checking your passport is not about to run out and that any credit cards you intend on using are valid [...]