In Australia, commercial electric vehicle supplier SEA Electric and Mevco, a systems integrator specialising in light-duty EVs for the mining industry, have agreed to cooperate on the conversion of 8,500 Toyota off-road vehicles to electric drives.
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Hertz and the ride-hailing company Uber are expanding their US partnership to Europe. Accordingly, Hertz wants to provide up to 25,000 electric cars for Uber drivers in European capitals by 2025. London, Paris and Amsterdam were explicitly mentioned so far.
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Leasing provider Arval has reserved 10,000 units of the Lightyear 2 from Dutch solar car start-up Lightyear. The total number of pre-orders for the Lightyear 2 from B2B partners now exceeds 21,000 vehicles.
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Chinese manufacturer BYD has kicked off the delivery of a batch of 304 electric trucks to India’s Adani Group. The BYD Q1R electric trucks are now on their way by sea to four Adani Group ports in India, where they will be used as terminal tractors.
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The Rouen municipality in northern France is having 49 Iveco Crossway diesel intercity buses converted to electric drives to operate as school buses. The project was awarded to a French consortium from which Greenmot will supply the retrofit kit.
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Italian transit company Busitalia has signed a framework agreement with Iveco Bus to supply up to 150 electric buses over the next three years. The deal represents the most significant order for Iveco’s E-Way buses in Italy to date and comes at a time when the company is increasing activities in the market.
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Mercedes-Benz has delivered all 45 electric buses on order with the public transit company VLP in the northeast of Germany. Verkehrsgesellschaft Ludwigslust-Parchim (VLP) has now taken delivery of the last 15 vehicles of a significant order placed in 2019.
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Madison, the capital of the US state of Wisconsin, is procuring 46 electric buses from New Flyer. The Xcelsior Charge NG are articulated since they measure 60 feet (about 18 metres), and the US government has funded the order as part of a more extensive rapid transit system.
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The transport company of the Slovakian city of Presov has ordered six more trolleybuses from the Skoda Group. The 18-metre buses are based on Solaris bodies and will have traction batteries that allow a range of at least twelve kilometres on routes without overhead lines.
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Tevex Logistics, the logistics subsidiary of the German butcher Tönnies Group, wants to use the battery-electric eActros LongHaul long-distance truck for food deliveries in the future. To this end, the company has now signed a letter of intent with Mercedes-Benz Trucks for the order of 50 units.
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The Mediterranean island of Malta is putting out to tender the procurement of 250 new electric vehicles for government fleets. The 10-million-euro project is financed by EU funds and aims to increase the share of electric vehicles in public service from seven per cent in 2021 to 40 per cent.
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In India, the state-owned company Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) has just put out another large tender for electric vehicles. The organisation is looking to lease 3,500 electric cars for a period of three to five years.
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) announces that it will ultimately convert its fleet of company cars in the Netherlands to electric vehicles by the end of 2026. The move follows similar advances CCEP just made in Belgium.
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Winnipeg Transit, the public transport company in the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has signed a framework agreement with New Flyer to deliver battery and fuel cell electric buses.
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In India, Convergence Energy Services (CESL), a subsidiary of state-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), has launched the third round of tenders under the Grand Challenge Scheme. The aim is to fund thousands of electric buses in up to nine major cities across the sub-continent.
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In Croatia, the state railway HZPP has signed a contract with the Croatian rail vehicle manufacturer Koncar Electric Vehicles for the delivery of battery electric trains and six charging stations to be installed in Split, Osijeck, Varazdin, Bjelovar, Virovitica and Pula.
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New Flyer of America has received a five-year contract from Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) for up to 157 buses. The contract includes firm orders for 15 battery-electric and 54 diesel buses, with options to purchase up to 88 additional battery-electric or diesel buses.
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Japan’s MK Group has added 35 BMW electric cars in its taxi divisions in Tokyo and Kyoto. In the Japanese capital, the company is now using 20 BMW i7s, while in Kyoto a further ten BMW i7s and five BMW iXs have entered service.
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The Delhi Transport Corporation has contracted Tata Motors to supply 1,500 electric buses for use in India’s capital, New Delhi. The agreement covers the supply of 1,500 Tata Starbus EV 12-metre electric buses over a period of twelve years.
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The public transport company PMDP of the Czech city of Pilsen has concluded a framework agreement with the Skoda Group for up to 53 new trolleybuses. The contract initially includes fixed orders for nine units of the Skoda 26Tr and four units of the 27Tr.
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The Turkish manufacturer Karsan has won a tender to supply 100 electric buses to the capital of Bucharest, Romania. The winning bid concluded a tender that had failed twice before.
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Scania and Lithuania-based transportation company Girteka announce an extensive new partnership. Girteka expects Scania to deliver up to 600 battery-electric trucks over the next four years. The companies will also collaborate on establishing charging infrastructure.
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The Berlin Fire Brigade is procuring the next electrified emergency vehicles from Rosenbauer. The order includes, among other things, four units of the hybrid fire-fighting vehicle “Revolutionary Technology” (RT) in the Berlin configuration as eLHF. In addition, there will be an electric appliance vehicle with a Volvo chassis.
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In the Australian city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales (NSW), Transit Systems and their partners Zenobē and TransGrid have completed the construction of Australia’s largest electrified bus depot.
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a further increase in the share of electric vehicles in new fleet purchases. In total, the USPS plans to deploy at least 66,000 battery-electric delivery vehicles by 2028.
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Mullen Automotive has received a significant order from one of the largest commercial vehicle dealer groups in the USA. Randy Marion Automotive Group (RMA) signed a firm order agreement for over 6,000 Mullen electric vans, and the contract is valued at $200 million.
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Tata Motors announced today that Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) signed a definitive agreement to launch 921 electric buses in the city of Bengaluru. The Tata subsidiary TML Smart City Mobility Solutions will operate the e-buses for 12 years.
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The US fuel cell specialist Plug Power announces that it will buy 75 units of the Nikola Tre FCEV H2 truck within three years and supply customers in North America with green hydrogen using these hydrogen trucks. The first vehicles are to be handed over as early as 2023.
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In Germany, the logistics provider Dachser plans to add 50 long-distance electric Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul trucks to its European fleet. Dachser and Mercedes-Benz Trucks have signed a letter of intent to this effect.
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The US Forest Service is getting ready to decarbonise the fleet, which means replacing 17,000 vehicles by 2035 and nearly 9,000 commercial vehicles by 2027. The agency is, therefore, rigorously testing the Ford F-150 Lightning in a pilot that is the first of its kind.
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