Author: Alex Lowe

Honda e dropped from sale in the EU, UK and Japan

Honda has recently discontinued the iconic Honda e electric hatchback in the UK, Europe and Japan. Since its introduction in 2020 sales haven’t been as impressive as Honda hoped. A few things can be attributed to this, namely the hefty price increase. In 2020, the Honda e was priced at £29,160 (after Govt. grant, which has since been removed). Before being dropped from sale, Honda was asking £37,395 for the […]

Lowe’s stores in the US now accept Apple Pay

Lowe’s retail stores in the USA have been a longtime holdout of accepting Apple Pay in its physical stores. The company has been accepting Apple Pay online and in its app for a long time, but for various reasons it has been a hold out when it comes to accepting contactless and Apple Pay in its stores. Apple Pay support commenced on 20th December this year, according to various Lowe’s […]

Ubiquiti 2023 – Year in Review

Every year, Ubiquiti comes out with a lot of new products and we’re going to look back on the past twelve months of releases, software updates and more. This year, Ubiquiti launched a full rebrand, UniFi Talk was launched in the UK and Canada, the new G5 Bullet and G5 Dome were launched, lots of new UISP products were also launched. For the interface, we also launched a brand new […]

UI Chat – December 2023 – “I’m tired, boss”

SquadShot Show Notes This month on the UI Chat Podcast, Alex and Evan are back to record a Christmas special episode. Topics discussed are the UniFi Protect remote access saga and what that means, the new UniFi Express, UniFi Access Elevator, the UISP Design Centre now has support for fibre planning, the new UniFi Cable Modem and much, much more! We love to hear from our listeners! Get in touch […]

Charging Status – December 2023

SquadShot Show Notes In this special Christmas episode of the Charging Status Podcast, Alex and Jim return to talk about the cars they have been driving, Alex’s surprisingly uneventful EV road-trip in the Genesis GV70, some talk about using Tesla superchargers with non-Tesla vehicles, being told off for filming, the petrol Jeep Avenger, the Honda e being dropped from sale and much more! We love to hear from our listeners! […]

Ubiquiti introduces new UniFi Cable Modem

Ubiquiti has introduced a new cable modem this week which is compatible with the UniFi system. The new modem was leaked earlier this year in July by ISP cox.com and will work with certain cable ISPs such as Comcast Business, Comcast Xfinity (Residential), Charter Spectrum (Residential) and Cox (Residential). The new modem has a small 1.3-inch LCM screen as seen in other UniFi devices, DOCSIS 3.1 port on the rear […]

Creator Spotlight S3 E6 – Lexie Cooper

SquadShot In this episode, I chatted to Lexie Cooper about what she does for Blue Origin, networking for rockets! Also about some the issues on being so online and what comes with that and then, some conversation about WiFi. Creator Spotlight is our series where we talk to creators about what they make and do and how they got started. We really hope you enjoy this new episode. We love […]

McDonald’s has a new Starbucks competitor launching soon, called CosMc’s

McDonald’s is for the first time creating a sub brand it is calling ‘CosMc’s’ and it looks to be going after Starbucks with a focus on beverages, snack foods as well as hosting some iconic McDonald’s foot items. The first location is to open in the US later this month in Chicago with 10 more locations planned to open in the US in 2024. At this stage, there isn’t any […]

Ford reveals pricing for new E-Transit Custom in the UK, starting from £52k

Ford has recently updated its list for the new E-Transit Custom pricing in the UK which has now included the initial specs and release dates for the all electric model. The new Transit Custom has recently gone on sale in the UK, with prices for the base spec ‘Leader’ trim starting at £38,820 (£32,350 exc.VAT). For that you get a 2.0L EcoBlue diesel engine with 110PS (108bhp) and a 6 […]

Ubiquiti launches new EV Station Pro, with support for payment processing

Ubiquiti has recently introduced the new EV Station Pro which has support for payment processing. The new unit looks pretty identical to the non-Pro model with the same SAE J1772 charging plug, 10.1″ touchscreen and 11 kW Level 2 charging speeds. One of the other differences is that is can now use WiFi as well as Ethernet to connect, although this is the same automatic ‘Auto-connect to UniFi WiFi’ system […]