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Leclanché signs preferred partnership agreement with Škoda Electric to supply battery packs for electric buses

Green Car Congress

In 2015 Leclanché unveiled its first all-electric bus in Belgium. Now the European e-bus industry is at a watershed moment as proven battery technology and tighter environmental legislation make electric buses economically competitive with diesel. —Anil Srivastava, CEO of Leclanché.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

Starting in 2016, the Swedish brand has included plug-in hybrid versions of pretty much every new vehicle it sells in the US. . Polestar itself is in the process of setting up its company stores, a process obviously affected by the global COVID pandemic now entering its second year. Its second electric car will break cover this March.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

The key force behind the changes taking place in this windswept Dutch city is not a global market trend or the maturity of the engineering solutions. We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016. It’s having motivated people who are also in the right place at the right time. One is Robin Berg, who started a company called.

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