The US American city of Chicago has launched a new electrification initiative called ‘Chicago Electric’ to transition the city’s municipal fleet to electric vehicles by 2035, which will cost an investment of over $42M over a period of five years.
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WattEV, the Californian specialist for truck charging stations, has ordered 14 Nikola Tre BEVs. WattEV will provide the corresponding charging infrastructure at the Californian port of Long Beach.
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Nikola Motor says it received an order for over 50 fuel cell trucks and plans to build 50 hydrogen refuelling stations in North America.
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The electric ride pooling service CleverShuttle is insolvent. Because Deutsche Bahn is withdrawing as an investor, CleverShuttle had to file for insolvency. Nevertheless, operations are continuing for the time being.
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The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (USA) has ordered seven fuel cell buses from New Flyer. The public transport provider also signed an option for up to 100 more buses under the five-year contract.
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The Californian fleet leasing provider Zeeba is procuring almost 250 electric vehicles from Ford. These are a mix of the Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning and E-Transit models. Additionally, Ford will supply Zeeba with AC chargers at various locations in Southern California.
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The UK-based companies Biffa and Lunaz have signed a fleet electrification and upcycling agreement. Lunaz will help electrify Biffa’s diesel refuse truck fleet over the next decade through its proprietary upcycling and electrification process and technology.
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Grupo Bimbo, a baking company, has ordered seven electric trucks from Scania. Once the vehicles arrive in Mexico, they will form Scania’s first electric fleet in Latin America.
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The taxi company Arabia Taxi has put 269 Tesla Model 3 in service in Dubai. As reported, Dubai will only permit electrified taxis in the emirate from 2027. Arabia Taxi operates 6,000 vehicles throughout the United Arab Emirates, 83 per cent of which are hybrid taxis.
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Wrightbus has secured a new order to deliver 48 zero-emission buses for Stagecoach in London. The British public transport operator expects delivery of the all-electric double-deckers before the year’s end. Plus, these are not the only zero-emission models coming to the capital.
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In Nigeria, the energy company Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) has announced a partnership with China’s bus builder Yutong to put 12,000 electric buses on the roads over the next seven years and build the infrastructure for them.
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Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is investing CAD 700 million into procuring 340 electric buses and infrastructure. There is some funding through the provincial government.
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Online food delivery company Just Eat plans to replace its entire corporate sales fleet in the UK with electric vehicles by 2025. The first twelve vehicles are already on the road, namely the Cupra Born and VW ID.3.
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Blink Charging’s subsidiary Blink Mobility, an all-electric carsharing service, announced the acquisition of Envoy Technologies, which offers shared electric vehicles as an amenity for real estate developers. Blink Mobility says the deal will create one of the largest all-electric carsharing companies in the United States.
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Volvo Trucks North America announced Coca-Cola Canada Bottling is acquiring six Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of a pilot program in the Greater Montreal Area. The six trucks are the first Class 8 battery-electric trucks in the distributor’s fleet.
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The food company Frito-Lay, which belongs to the PepsiCo group, announced that it will put 700 electric delivery vans on the roads in the USA by the end of this year.
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Package delivery service GLS Canada has purchased four Lion6 electric trucks, which have been locally designed, developed, and built by Lion Electric in Canada. These four electric trucks will replace the current diesel trucks operated by GLS Canada.
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Hertz and the US city of Atlanta, Georgia, have entered a public-private partnership to bring more electric vehicles to the city. Some 4,000 additional EVs will be available to private and business customers and rideshare drivers.
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Alexander Dennis and BYD UK have delivered 39 more electric buses to Stagecoach in Scotland. These are 24 Enviro200EV solo buses and 15 Enviro400EV double-deckers.
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Solaris has announced a record order for hydrogen buses from the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: The transport company Rebus Regionalbus Rostock has ordered 52 fuel cell buses from the Polish manufacturer, including 47 vehicles with a length of twelve metres and five articulated buses.
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The Dutch company Cure Waste Management is procuring 14 electric trucks from DAF Trucks to collect household waste in Eindhoven, Valkenswaard and Geldrop-Mierlo. Seven CF Electric trucks, equipped as refuse collection vehicles, have already been delivered. The others will follow shortly.
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Einride has launched in the UK and enters the market with a mighty partner. PepsiCo will use Einride electric trucks to carry Walkers’ wares between plants in Leicester and Coventry, but that is just phase one.
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Since the end of last week, customers in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, can book the purely electric taxi service Green SM via a nationwide hotline or app. According to the operating company GSM, the service will expand to at least five provinces and cities this year.
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The Dutch public transport operators Qbuzz and OV-bureau Groningen Drenthe have placed an order with Daimler Buses for the construction of a total of 35 fully electric articulated Mercedes-Benz eCitaro G buses. According to the contract, deliveries are to be completed by 2026.
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The Norwegian capital Oslo got 183 new electric buses on 16 April. The Solaris Urbino 18 electric vehicles will be used in route areas 1 (city centre north-south) and 2 (city centre east-west).
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The African nation of Kenya has secured a $377 million fund from a consortium of European agencies to build “East Africa’s first electric bus lane”.
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The state of West Virginia is acquiring 41 GreenPower custom-built, battery-electric school buses for $15 million. The models include Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST school buses. As part of the order, GreenPower received a $3 million deposit from the state to manufacture the buses in West Virginia.
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Solaris announces that the French Union of Public Purchasing Groups has added two Polish electric bus models to its procurement list. This makes Solaris a potential supplier of electric buses and trolleybuses for public transport projects in France.
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PepsiCo has unveiled its fleet of 18 Tesla Semis in Sacramento, USA. The all-electric Class 8 trucks will be used at the beverage company’s bottling plant in Sacramento, California. PepsiCo ordered the first 100 electric semi-trailer trucks from Tesla in 2017.
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UK public transport operator Stagecoach has announced the company’s largest electric bus order to date. Stagecoach plans to invest up to £37.2 million (€42.3 million) to procure a new fleet of 170 electric buses for use in Stockport, Manchester.
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