Tata Motors is apparently searching for a location for its European battery cell factory in Spain or Great Britain. In Spain, the Indian manufacturer is considering an industrial site in Zuera near the city of Zaragoza.
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Volvo Trucks has delivered 15 refrigerated electric trucks to Grupo Primafrio. The trucks of type Volvo FH Electric will collect fruits and vegetables in the Spanish Murcia region, known as the Orchard of Europe. The Group says this transitions its regional operations to 100% electric.
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Volkswagen’s plans for a battery cell factory in Spain have entered the next phase by purchasing a plot of land. PowerCo, the Group’s battery division, has signed the papers and was ready to invest €63 mn to buy 130 hectares in Sagunt, near Valencia.
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Seat announces that in future it will also produce components for electric cars at its transmission plant in El Prat De Llobregat near Barcelona. Together with Martorell and Barcelona, the Seat Components plant is one of the Spanish brand’s three production centres.
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The German company H2FLY, which specialises in the development of hydrogen fuel cell systems for aircraft, is taking over project management in the HEAVEN project. The project will test the first passenger aircraft flying on liquid hydrogen (LH2) in 2023.
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Jeep has opened orders in many European countries for its first BEV model Avenger in the fully equipped ‘1st Edition’. In Germany, the variant costs €39,900. However, the price for the base model is not yet available.
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The Volkswagen Group and Seat have given the green light to invest ten billion euros in e-mobility in Spain. The investments announced in May were previously dependent on the Spanish government’s funding under the PERTE eMobility funding programme, which was recently released.
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Ford is apparently planning to accelerate the switch to electric vehicles in Europe. According to reports in German and UK media, production of the internal combustion Fiesta small car in Cologne will end at the end of June 2023, a year earlier than planned. It looks likely that plans for electric production will also be […]
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Spain’s Ministry of Industry has made public the distribution of state aid for the first call of the eMobility funding programme PERTE. In total, the government is distributing 877.2 million euros to ten funding recipients – almost 300 million euros more than previously planned.
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US American electric car startup Mullen plans to begin selling a vehicle in Europe later this year. The Mullen I-GO is a small electric car manufactured in China that the company says will be used primarily for last-mile logistics.
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InoBat Auto has signed a letter of intent with Spanish authorities to build a factory in Valladolid. At the same time, however, the Slovakian battery manufacturer itself relativises the significance of the document by affirming that other locations in Western Europe are still in the running.
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Zunder, a charging infrastructure company from Spain, announces a €100 million capital injection from French sustainability investor Mirova. Zunder aims to own and operate over 4,000 ultra-fast charging points in Southern Europe by 2025. The money is the first charge to accelerate development.
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Irizar has won a contract to deliver twelve electric buses to Palma on the island of Mallorca. EMT Palma expects deliveries of the Irizar ie tram e-buses to begin in early 2023. This time, Irizar has added an extra to the roof of the buses.
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Irizar has received another electric bus order for Spain. Transports Ciutat Comtal (TCC) has ordered 20 ‘Irizar ie’ trams for use in the Pamplona region. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in mid-2023.
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BYD has signed a framework agreement with Castrosua, a Spanish manufacturer of bus bodies. BYD and Castrosua will work together to offer locally manufactured 12-metre electric buses specifically for Spanish customers.
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Iberdrola is addressing charging infrastructure for electric cars and buses in Spain. The energy provider has expanded its public charging network for electric cars in Spain by 65 per cent to more than 2,500 charging points at over 500 locations in the past year. For electric buses, an additional 280 charging points are to be […]
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The real estate company Castellana Properties has signed an agreement with Cable Energía to install a total of 350 charging points for electric vehicles at 14 of its properties in Spain. The capacities are to range from 22 kW to 350 kW, depending on the location.
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Spanish charging station maker Circontrol has launched its first 400 kW chargers and installed them in the most powerful urban charging hub in Spain. Inaugurated in the centre of Madrid, it will provide 2.5 megawatts of power for electric vehicles.
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Ebusco has received an order from Barcelona, Spain, for 21 electric buses and charging equipment. Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) expects the Ebusco 2.2 vehicles to take up service in Q2/2023. This is the Dutch manufacturer’s first entry into the Southern European market.
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Iberdrola and BP have announced a strategic alignment to advance electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The partners earmarked €1bn for deploying up to 11,000 fast charge points across Spain and Portugal. Up to 600ktpa production capacity of green hydrogen is the next target, also including the UK.
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Solaris Bus & Coach has won a tender in the Spanish town of Fuenlabrada in the Madrid region. The municipal transport company EMT Fuenlabrada S.A. expects delivery of four Urbino 12 electric buses along with charging infrastructure.
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Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary responsible for charging and energy businesses within the Group, expands its wall box reach. The three white label home charging models are now available in Italy, Sweden and Spain.
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Envision AESC is now also planning a battery cell factory in Spain. This is part of a larger strategic agreement between the Envision Group and the Spanish government. The battery factory is to be built in the Spanish city of Navalmoral de la Mata and will be operational in 2025 with a capacity of up […]
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BYD has just revealed another electric bus order from Spain. Empresa de Blas y Cia, the Spanish subsidiary of the German rail transport company Arriva, has ordered 15 electric low-floor buses from BYD, twelve of which are 12-metre and three 13-metre vehicles. They are to be used in Alcorcón, a suburb of Madrid, from 2023.
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The EU-funded Flow project has just kicked off in Barcelona. Among other things, the initiative aims to test, validate and improve vehicle-to-X for exchanging energy between vehicles, buildings and the grid to inform wider European application.
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The Spanish bus manufacturer Irizar has received an order for 30 electric buses from Valladolid, Spain. In addition to the 30 Irizar ie trams, the public transport operator AUVASA (Autobuses Urbanos de Valladolid) also ordered corresponding charging infrastructure.
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Ford Europe has selected the Valencia plant in Spain as its preferred location for the assembly of vehicles that will be based on a next-generation electric vehicle architecture. Valencia has thus been given preference over the Saarlouis plant in Germany.
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The companies Iberdrola, CIE Automotive, Enagás, EIT InnoEnergy and CIC energiGUNE have launched the Basquevolt initiative with the Basque government to research, develop and produce solid-state batteries.
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BYD announces its first order for 18-meter-long electric buses on the Iberian Peninsula. The public transport operator Moventis has ordered four articulated e-buses from BYD and expects delivery at the end of 2022. The new customer will deploy the EVs in the Vallés Occidental area near Barcelona.
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After Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) ordered eight fuel cell buses from the Portuguese manufacturer Caetano Bus in 2020, the remaining seven H2 buses will now make their debut in the TMB fleet.
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