Gaussin to expand to Australia with Nexport
French special vehicle manufacturer Gaussin is entering a strategic partnership with Nexport to distribute its range of electric and hydrogen vehicles in Australia and New Zealand.
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Hubject and &Charge join up for better charging
Hubject has launched a collaboration with &Charge, a company spun out by Porsche Digital, to develop joint solutions to improve the charging experience. Initially, the focus will be on data quality around charging stations.
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Vitol gets into electric transport services with BYD
Electric vehicle, battery and charging station manufacturer BYD and the world’s biggest independent oil trader Vitol have formed a partnership to provide fleet mobility as a service in select markets worldwide.
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Mumbai invites tenders for 1,900 electric buses
Mumbai’s transport authority BEST has invited tenders for 1,900 fully electric buses for Mumbai. BEST, with a present fleet of 386 electric buses, plans to complete procuring these additional buses by mid-2023.
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Michigan joins the race for inductive charging road
Michigan is planning to build the first public road in the United States where electric vehicles can charge wirelessly while driving. However, the competition is on, since Indiana has already begun the first phases of such a project.
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15,000 charging stations to roll out in India
In India, the EV charging infrastructure company Evre and parking solutions brand Park+ have announced their partnership to install 10,000 EV charging stations within two years. In a separate deal, the state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) plans to commission 5,000 electric vehicle charging stations over the next three years.
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Battery storage charging from VW & E.ON
The energy group E.ON and Volkswagen have just opened the order books for their battery-supported fast charger in Germany. The E.ON Drive Booster can charge two electric cars simultaneously at 150 kW and does not require any civil engineering or grid connection adaptation.
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Airbus forges ahead with zero-emission aviation
Airbus has just unveiled concrete plans for zero-emission aviation with a new generation of the battery-electric CityAirbus. Meanwhile, the aircraft manufacturer has signed an MoU with Air New Zealand to research hydrogen-fuelled aircraft, while in Europe Airbus will focus on hydrogen aviation infrastructure with Air Liquide and airport operator Vinci by 2030.
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Hermes orders 168 Mercedes eSprinter in the UK
The British business unit of the parcel service provider Hermes has ordered 168 Mercedes-Benz eSprinters. The electric vans are to go into operation before the end of the year. The order is being handled by the Mercedes dealer Intercounty Truck & Van.
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Order for 25 VDL electric buses from Finland
The Finnish bus company Pohjolan Liikenne has ordered 25 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach. The LE-122 e-buses of the new Citea generation will be put into operation in 2023.
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Wabtec launches e-locomotive with first order
Pittsburgh-based freight train manufacturer Wabtec has unveiled its first battery-electric locomotive. Australian mining company Roy Hill has become the first purchaser of Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive.
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Lawsuits for German carmakers to stop polluting
The environmental organisations Environmental Action Germany (DUH) and Greenpeace have filed lawsuits against BMW, Daimler and VW in order to force the car companies to comply with climate protection targets.
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Royal Mail trails two new light electric vehicles
Royal Mail is set to trial two types of micro electric vehicles for letter and small parcel deliveries. These are the Paxster Cargo and the Ligier Pulse 4 vehicles.
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Driivz & Hubject initiate Plug&Charge partnership
Driivz and Hubject are cooperating to drive the roll-out of Plug&Charge. The impetus for this was provided by Mer Group, which is switching to Driivz’s operating system to manage its charging infrastructure in Europe and is expected to be the first to benefit from this cooperation.
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Viggo to add three Toyota Mirai to Oslo taxi fleet
The first hydrogen fuel cell taxis from the Danish taxi company Viggo are in operation in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The three vehicles are Toyota Mirai.
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Addison Lee to electrify fleet with ID.4s by 2023
London’s largest taxi and hire car company Addison Lee has announced that it will only use purely electric cars from 2023. Addison Lee already has 650 electric cars in service. From November, 200 VW ID.4s are to be added every month.
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The department for getting off diesel runs on… ..diesel
Not leading by example: The UK government department overseeing the phasing out of diesel cars still relies on them for its own fleet.
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Hubject & Smartlab join forces for Plug&Charge eRoaming
Hubject and the European platform e-clearing.net, initiated by Smartlab and the foundation ElaadNL, are cooperating with immediate effect to spread the Plug&Charge technology. The aim is to make “seamless charging” available to all Hubject, Smartlab and e-clearing.net partners.
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Rosatom to build battery factory in Kaliningrad
Russia’s nuclear corporation Rosatom announces the location for its battery cell factory announced in March. It will be built in the western Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and is to produce battery cells for electric vehicles and energy storage systems from 2026.
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Gotion High-Tech aims for 300 GWh by 2025
Volkswagen’s Chinese battery partner Gotion High-Tech wants to achieve a battery cell production volume of 300 GWh by 2025, three times as much as previously planned. Cells from Gotion are also to come off the production line in Göttingen, Germany.
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Gogoro to become publicly listed and expand
Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro and Poema Global Holdings, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, have announced a definitive agreement resulting in Gogoro becoming a publicly listed company. The proceeds should propel expansion in India, China and Southeast Asia.
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Foxconn & PTT to make and supply EVs in Thailand
The contract manufacturer Foxconn and Thai energy company PTT have created a joint venture for the production of electric cars in Thailand. Investments of one to two billion US dollars (about 850 million to 1.7 billion euros) are to flow into the large-scale project.
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Schaeffler opens new plant in Hungary
Automotive supplier Schaeffler has opened a new plant at its Szombathely location in western Hungary. The production site is the Schaeffler Group’s first pure e-mobility plant worldwide.
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Skoda considers an electric Octavia – for 2025
According to CEO Thomas Schäfer, Skoda is “intensively thinking about an E-Octavia”. However, Schäfer says the volume model, which has so far been offered as a combustion engine and plug-in hybrid, will not be launched as a purely electric vehicle until after 2025.
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19 New Flyer electric buses for Oregon
New Flyer has announced an additional order from Oregon’s Lane Transit District (LTD) for 19 battery-electric transit buses and associated charging infrastructure.
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Osprey to install 150 charging hubs in the UK
British charge point operator Osprey Charging, formerly known as Engenie, will invest £75 million to install over 150 high-powered EV charging hubs across the UK by 2025.
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London to only procure zero-emission buses
London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that from now on all new buses ordered by Transport for London (TfL) for the British capital will zero-emission vehicles.
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Ballard reveals new fuel cell module for trucks
Ballard Power Systems is introducing a new generation of its FCmove fuel cell module for buses and medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The new 100 kW module is called FCmove-HD+.
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Austrian e-taxis pioneer charging pad system
In Vienna and Graz, the ‘eTaxi Austria Project’ is starting a large-scale test run to test a new type of charging-pad charging technology over the next two years. With the Easelink system, electric taxis can charge with a connection to a charging pad at the taxi rank. The approach holds much promise for fleet operators.
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Renault introduces 19-tonne electric truck
Renault Trucks is expanding its range of all-electric truck models with a 19-tonne variant of the D Wide Z.E. Series production is now starting at the plant in Blainville-sur-Orne in Normandy, France.
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