Loop Energy, a Canadian company specialising in fuel cell systems for commercial vehicles, announces its first deal in South Korea. NGVI, a well-connected local manufacturer of hydrogen buses, has opted for Loop’s eFlow fuel cell platform.
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Oxford City Council has announced a new £5000 grant for licenced drivers of Hackney Carriages or black cabs to transition to an electric vehicle. The £5,000 grant is now available as a grant contribution towards the costs of purchasing a new ultra-low emission taxi.
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A few months before the official market launch of the Ford E-Transit in spring 2022, European fleet customers have now received some pre-production vehicles for real-life field trials. In Germany, two electric vans are being tested in Cologne.
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Red Hook Container Terminals LLC announced today that it has begun regular commercial operation of ten BYD Motors heavy-duty zero-emission battery-electric yard tractors at its container terminal in Port Newark, New Jersey.
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Volvo Trucks North America has delivered the first of five all-electric VNR Electric heavy-duty trucks to New York City-based beer and beverage distributor Manhattan Beer Distributors. This will use the electric trucks to serve customers throughout New York City, Long Island and surrounding areas.
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The Canadian city of Montreal is investing 885 million dollars in electrification over the next three years. This will help fund more charging stations, electric buses and more sharing electric bikes.
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The Norwegian government is considering a new directive that would require most new vehicle purchases by public authorities to be electric from 1 January 2022. The proposal will now be subject to a three-month period for consultations and comments before it can come into force.
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The Lower Saxony state police have ordered a total of 215 VW ID.3 as emergency vehicles. In addition, the police will add another 175 PHEV models of the Passat to their existing fleet of 160 VW Passat GTE.
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Lion Electric has received an order for 35 LionC school buses from Canadian province Prince Edward Island. The manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles has also secured new US$100 million credit facility.
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Chinese manufacturer BYD has delivered 76 electric buses to public transport operator Nobina for use in the Finnish capital Helsinki. This completes the order for a total of 119 vehicles.
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The British National Health Service (NHS) is planning to purchase a fleet of fully electric ambulances. For this purpose, the NHS will cooperate with Ford and the Venari Group to develop a corresponding vehicle based on the Ford Transit.
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In Germany, Aiways has just sold around 500 units of the Aiways U5 e-SUV to the Munich-based car subscription provider Finn.Auto. Some 150 vehicles will be delivered to Finn.Auto over the next three months.
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India´s state-run Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) is calling bids to procure 100,000 electric two- and three-wheelers. The tender is part of what may indeed be “the largest such global tender” as CESL’s head organisation EESL aims to have half a million light electric vehicles across India.
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In the UK, Lyreco has just received 17 Renault Master E-Tech electric delivery vans. Renault says “Europe’s leading distributor of workplace products” has chosen the all-electric light commercial vehicle for its London multidrop operation.
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In Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, several electric buses from Solaris will be on the roads by the middle of next year. The municipal transport company AarBus has ordered 29 electric buses from the company.
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The Estonian company Bolt Technology has raised 600 million euros in fresh capital in a financing round. The money is to flow partly into the food delivery service Bolt Market, and other offerings of the company are also to be expanded.
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British energy and communications firm SPIE UK announces the first step in its fleet electrification effort. The company purchased 60 Nissan e-NV200 vans and says it aims to replace 98 per cent of its fleet with alternative fuel vehicles by 2025.
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Seven UK companies have joined forces to form the Electric Vehicle Fleet Accelerator (EVFA) and have pledged to convert their fleets to electric vehicles by 2030. In return, they are demanding a range of measures from the government to help with the transition.
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The Austrian company Biogena has taken delivery of 82 all-electric Mini Cooper SE for its employees. This is now the largest electric Mini fleet in Austria.
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The public transport operator of Paris, RATP, continues its push to buy a total of 800 electric buses by 2024. New mayor follow-up orders have gone out to Irizar and Bolloré to deliver 113 and 158 e-buses respectively.
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UK electric car subscription service Onto says it has raised 175 million dollars in a new financing round. Alfvén & Didrikson and Pollen Street Capital led the Series B funding round, with the most prominent investor being TotalEnergies. The investment follows Onto’s significant growth in recent months.
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Hyundai is bringing its XCIENT fuel cell truck to the USA for the first time through two government-funded projects in California. The incoming 32 demo trucks are based on XCIENT Fuel Cell with technical modifications with Hyundai specifying a range of 500 miles (800 km).
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The British supermarket chain Asda has announced that it will convert its fleet of over 600 vehicles completely to electric cars by June 2025. The company is thus a few years ahead of the British government’s target of only allowing new zero-emission cars from 2030.
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The Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) has chosen Arrival to replace Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) buses with Arrival’s battery-electric buses. For funding, ATN has been awarded a two-million-dollar grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in partnership with the city of Anaheim, California.
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Flemish public transport operator De Lijn procures 44 new articulated buses with plug-in hybrid drives to green its operations. In addition, the operator will also convert 280 existing hybrid buses to plug-in hybrids to increase their electric range, out of a total fleet of 530.
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The province of North Holland has launched the first zero-emission bus concession in the Netherlands. It will see operator Transdev replace all buses with combustion engines with electric ones in the Gooi en Vechtstreek region during 2022. The concession will run through 2030.
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Solaris has delivered six electric buses to the Polish city of Malbork. The manufacturer received the order for the six electric 12-meter buses in July 2020 and has a longstanding relationship to the town in northern Poland.
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The Canadian city of Halifax will procure the first 60 electric buses, including charging infrastructure with financial support from the provincial and national governments and plans to completely electrify its bus fleet, which currently consists of 340 diesel vehicles, by 2028 at the latest.
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The electric bus building partnership BYD ADL announces it has signed a framework agreement with the National Transport Authority of Ireland (NTA). The deal includes an option for up to 200 battery-electric buses while a firm order for 45 e-buses was agreed at the same time.
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UK postal service Royal Mail wants to convert all of its company cars to electric vehicles by 2030. Under the plans, the company will overhaul all of its current car programes to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
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