At the Hanover IAA, VW Commercial Vehicles will present four concepts to illustrate the way autonomous electric transporters can become the basis for new business ideas, technically based on their modular electric drive system (MEB).
Continue readingThis March, we accompanied Mercedes-Benz Vans live for their winter testing of the upcoming electric transporter in northern Sweden. The eSprinter took off from the Arctic Circle and scored well with its sophisticated thermal management system and generously packed battery.
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BYD has introduced what they are calling the longest electric bus in the world. The K12A is 27 metres long, seats 250 passengers, has a top speed of 70 km/h and a range of 300 kilometres. The XXL bus was primarily developed for the South American market, for example for large cities such as Bogotá.
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) announces that it intends to spend more than €1.8 billion in the current year 2019 on converting its plants, establishing new business areas and developing new vehicles – the latter with a focus on electric drives.
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Deutsche Post/ DHL’s EV building outlet StreetScooter is to sign a contract with Yamato, a major Japanese logistics company worth around 32 million euros. The two companies will develop a small electric van together and will bring the first 500 units into the greater Tokyo area by autumn.
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The standard conversion of the Mercedes-Benz Vario into an electric truck by the Lower Bavarian special vehicle manufacturer Paul Nutzfahrzeuge, announced at the beginning of 2018, will start in Vilshofen in the second quarter of this year. The first model will be presented in Munich in April.
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Daimler Trucks has opened a new product and design centre at the Kawasaki plant of its Japanese commercial vehicle subsidiary Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC). A main focus of the new centre will be the specific challenges facing electric trucks and their ecosystems, including charging.
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Proton Power Systems has signed a letter of intent with Skoda Electric a.s. in the Czech Republic, as the partners aim to jointly develop, sell and service fuel cell electric buses using Proton’s modular ‘HyRange’ systems.
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The Canadian manufacturer Lion Electric, known for its electric school buses, is now starting the expansion of its range of commercial electric vehicles with the launch of its first electric truck in the US vehicle category of Class 8.
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Last year Solaris delivered 107 electric buses to customers across Europe. According to the Polish-Spanish bus manufacturer, it held a market share of 17% of all electric bus sales in Europe in 2018, the overview shows.
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The Spanish manufacturer Irizar, known for its electric buses, has now introduced an electric truck called the ie Truck. The 18-tonne truck will be available both as a purely electric vehicle and with an additional range extender running on natural gas.
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The Post subsidiary StreetScooter is getting a new boss. On 1 April, Jörg Sommer, previously COO at the e-truck manufacturer Chanje, will move from California to the German city of Aachen to expand the StreetScooter management team as their new CEO.
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Following the first deliveries of the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro in Germany, Daimler reports that the first calls for its electric bus have now also been received from neighbouring European countries, namely Luxembourg, France and Poland.
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Volkswagen is giving its T6 a facelift and is now bringing the vamped Bulli model to market with a purely electric drive. The updated T6.1 minibus will be available in selected markets this autumn. This also applies to the EV version.
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The airline Air France announces a cooperation agreement with the French battery recycling start-up CarWatt. The partners aim to replace diesel engines in vehicles used to load and unload luggage with EVs made from recycled materials, including 2nd life batteries.
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The ABT e-Transporter that debuted at last year’s IAA Commercial Vehicles will be shown in an aerodynamic tuning variant at the forthcoming Geneva Motor Show.
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Mercedes-Benz Trucks has announced the next steps with its eActros electric truck after absolving 30,000 km of testing. Starting this spring, the German Logistik Schmitt will use the eActros in real-life three-phase operation.
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Mitsubishi has started taking orders for the 2019 Outlander PHEV as a cargo version that comes without the rear seats. It is priced from £25,113 with the local Plug-In Van Grant but before tax.
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Nikola Motor announced battery electric variants for their hydrogen trucks Nikola Two and Nikola Tre, which will be offered in addition to the fuel cell versions. There will be three battery capacities to choose from: 500 kWh, 750 kWh and 1,000 kWh.
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Daimler & Tesla are truly considering to electrify vans thus confirming rather unofficial hints that emerged last year. Now Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche confirmed the talks at the company’s annual press conference, but the outcome is open.
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Hamburg’s port management company HHLA is currently testing the extent to which its electric automated guided vehicles (AGVs), used for transporting containers, can be flexibly integrated into the grid without affecting industrial operation. The effort is part of the FRESH funding project.
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In future, Nissan will offer its NV200 Transporter only with an electric drive. According to the manufacturer, production of the diesel version will end in the summer of this year, from where the model will continue exclusively as the e-NV200 electric version.
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The Dutch company, VDL Bus & Coach, is expanding its Citea Electric bus series with the 11.5-metre long Light Low Entry Electric. The Citea LLE-115 Electric is available with various charging options, door configurations and flexible interior.
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Chinese BYD has brought out three commercial EV product lines and this time aims at customers in Europe. Last week, two electric trucks and one electric van made their debut appearances in Murcia, Spain.
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Shortly after Ford announced a fully electric offshoot of its successful F-150 pickup model, US rival General Motors is also thinking out loud about electrifying off-road vehicles and pickup trucks from its GMC market.
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Opel has allowed a preview of the third generation of its Vivaro van. The new model will be available from dealers in late summer, and you can expect the battery-electric version to follow in 2020.
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The UK battery developer Hyperdrive Innovation and Hybria, an electric drive specialist firm from Finland have agreed to develop an all-weather series of prototypes of non-road mobile machinery and special vehicles such as snowmobiles or boats.
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Construction machinery manufacturer Volvo Construction Equipment announced the launch of a range of compact electric wheel loaders and excavators to be introduced from mid-2020 and the end of the development of new diesel engines for the vehicles.
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British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) is expanding its range of double-decker buses to include a model with fuel cell drive. The electric drive axle of the hydrogen bus comes from Germany’s ZF.
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At the CES Las Vegas 2019: Rinspeed presented a further advanced “Snap” ecosystem with the “microSNAP”. The new concept features an interchangeable body on an intelligent EV platform in micro-size.
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