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T&E: Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands lead deployments of zero-emission buses in Europe

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This will be essential for the countries at the bottom of the table: Austria and Ireland registered no zero-emission urban buses in 2019, while in Switzerland and Greece less than 4% of new buses were emissions-free.

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Benchmark: Saudi Arabia is building an EV battery supply chain

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Saudi Arabia’s ambitions for an EV supply chain are part of the diversification of the national economy away from oil, a project guided by the government’s Vision 2030 reform plan announced in 2016. The Saudi processing plant will process spodumene from a mine that European Lithium is developing in Wolfsberg, Austria.

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Cross-border car2go rentals up 80% in Q1 2017 to 33,000 journeys

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In addition, German customers are increasingly using the car2go service in European cities in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria. The segment of transnational rentals is growing dynamically and getting a bigger part of the total number of car2go journeys. In 2016, car2go increased its rentals by 40% to 22 million.

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Shell opens its first hydrogen fueling forecourt station in UK

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The opening of Shell’s first UK hydrogen site follows the success of sites in California, and in Germany where Shell is part of a joint venture with the ambition to open a network of up to 400 hydrogen sites by 2023. The site received more than a million customer visits in 2016.

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Ecoclean cuts BMW engine plant robot cell power and water consumption by ~30%

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At the BWM Group’s engine plant in Steyr (Austria), in a reference project accompanied by the Technical University of Vienna, Ecoclean Monschau (formerly Dürr Ecoclean) has significantly raised the energy efficiency of a. Steyr/Austria-based engine plant. flexible EcoCFlex Classic robot cell that had been in service for several.

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MAN and Austria’s CNL partnering on medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks; trials this year, production 2018

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As part of its partnership with CNL—a group of fifteen of Austria’s largest companies in the retail, logistics and production sectors—MAN will be making test vehicles available to nine CNL member companies for practical trials from the end of 2017. A semitrailer combination also forms part of the scope of testing.

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Renault boosts range of ZOE EV to 400 km with new 41 kWh pack option

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Trip was made available to ZOE customers in Europe in September 2016. Developed in association with Bosch, the service was released in Germany in September 2016 and will be rolled out over the next few months in France, the UK, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Smartphone app.

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