According to Sales Director Chris Craft, Bentley will offer hybrid versions of all its models by 2023 and launch its first all-electric model by 2025 at the latest. However, both the details of the models’ rollout and their technical basis is still unclear.
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French car manufacturer PSA is pushing ahead with electrification: Peugeot is now presenting the new 2008 and its all-electric variant, the e-2008. The market launch is planned for the end of the year.
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The latest versions of the Nissan Leaf are now available for purchase in Europe. This includes the longer range Leaf e+, as well as the conventional updated Leaf. First deliveries have already begun.
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Tesla has discontinued production of the Model 3 with rear-wheel drive. This is the single-engine version with a “long-range” battery configuration, the longest range version to date. The Tesla Model 3 can now only be ordered with a four-wheel drive.
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Tesla has apparently expanded the delivery of the Model 3 in order to achieve their targeted record quarter. Expiring subsidies in the USA also likely play a role, however. In addition, Model 3 will soon also be delivered in the UK.
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German electronics and software company, in-tech, has now founded an independent arm called e-troFit in order to retrofit diesel buses with electric drives in series production. The subsidiary is responsible for development, series production and sales.
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The London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) has now officially presented its semi-electric delivery vehicle, for which the order books are to be opened at the end of 2020. Deliveries are scheduled to start at the end of 2020.
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The commercial vehicle manufacturer Fiat Professional announced its first fully electric model: A battery-electric version of the Ducato van will be launched next year. Pre-orders are expected to start before the end of this year.
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EVgo just announced a massive expansion of roaming access to public chargers for EVgo customers across the US. The expansion has been made possible with bilateral interoperability agreements with network providers ChargePoint and EV Connect.
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Kyocera and BYD Japan are launching a joint project to develop an integrated energy demand-supply system for EVs using renewable energy from Kyocera’s photovoltaic systems and BYD’s electric buses.
Continue readingAs soon as Volkswagen puts some pressure, everything takes on a different dimension. That is what is happening with the switch to e-mobility in general – and the charging infrastructure in particular.
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The French utility company ENGIE has purchased the British EV public charging network operator ChargePoint Services (CPS), who owns and operates the GeniePoint charging network in the UK.
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To stimulate domestic battery cell production, the German Federal Ministry of Economics will most likely fund three consortia a total of 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion USD). Of these, only the project of Peugeot, Opel and the battery manufacturer Saft has been confirmed by name.
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The French car manufacturer PSA intends to assemble the battery packs for electric and hybrid cars of its Peugeot, Citroën and DS brands at its Trnava (Slovakia) plant and later also at its Vigo (Spain) plant.
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The BP-funded Israeli battery developer StoreDot has apparently fully charged an electric scooter from Torrot in just five minutes. Ordinarily, the Spanish scooter maker Torrot specifies a charging time of four hours.
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The state of Berlin and public transit operator BVG are pushing ahead with the ramp-up phase for the procurement of electric buses and are purchasing a further 90 EVs. Polish manufacturer Solaris secured the contract and will deliver from spring 2020.
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Shortly before the launch of its purely electric car sharing service We Share in Berlin at the end of June, Volkswagen entered into a strategic partnership with the Lidl and Kaufland retail chains. This gives the We Share fleet 140 additional charging points.
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Kick-scooters and similar LEVs are now road-legal in Germany with the official publication of the “Ordinance on the Participation of Small Electric Vehicles in Road Traffic”. Large scale rollouts are underway in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich.
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Ireland is also aiming to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030. This is one of 180 measures in the Irish government’s published the Climate Action Plan, which covers all relevant sectors.
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NITI Aayog, a think tank funded by the Indian central government, insists that starting in 2030, only electric vehicles should be permitted for registration in India.
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Bosch eBike Systems has presented its new products for 2020. In addition to better batteries and quieter motors, there are several new digital functions – as well as new drive units for electric cargo bikes.
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Tier Mobility, the German electric kick scooter company recently acquired by former F1 champion Nico Rosberg is launching a new series of electric scooters. The company’s first purpose-built LEVs have been developed and manufactured in a strategic partnership with Okai.
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A few days after the maiden flight of its hybrid aircraft based on a Cessna 337, Ampaire announces its first order. Personal Airline Exchange (PAX) has ordered 50 of the converted parallel hybrid aircraft, with an option for 50 more.
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Siemens is selling their eAircraft business unit for electric plane motors to Rolls-Royce. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.
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The hydrogen ferry Water Go Round currently under construction in the US has found new funding for setting up an entire fleet. SW/TCH Maritime, an investment platform for all kinds of electric maritime vessels is now on board.
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The “Ellen” is about to enter passenger service. The world’s most powerful all-electric ferry will soon shuttle between the Danish islands of Ærø and Fynshav – the longest stretch undertaken by any electric ferry.
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In 2018 109 babies born in the USA were named Tesla, most of them girls. Other names shared with car brands were Bentley (3,393 babies), Ford (419), Mercedes (236), Chevy (176), Lexus (40), Audi (18) and Dodge (15). Some kid even got named Pontiac Aztek this year, and 551 little blighters got called Edison.
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