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Tesla rumored to be purchasing wireless charging company Wiferion

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Tesla is rumored to be purchasing wireless charging company Wiferion, a Freiberg, Germany-based entity with charging and power solutions. The shareholders intend to sell their shares in the company to Tesla International BV by means of a purchase agreement,” the filing said. It also bought Hibar Systems in late 2019.

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Fort Worth buying four New Flyer electric buses for new zero-emission route

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Trinity Metro’s first Xcelsior CHARGE was unveiled in Fort Worth during a May 2019 event, which previewed The Dash service. The purchase was supported by local, state, and federal funds. New Flyer Group has delivered nearly 130 buses to Fort Worth including buses from New Flyer, MCI, and ARBOC since 1990.

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Study finds EV buyers want rebates, not tax credits; government could have saved $2B

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You have to be wealthy enough to buy the whole car and then wait for your tax-break kickback in April. But if you’re not in that class of buyers, you often need the money when you buy the car or you’re not going to buy it. It’s not doing a good job of spurring wider adoption of electric vehicles.

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

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In Sweden, Norway and Finland, respectively 26%, 24%, and 23% of urban buses registered in 2019 were zero-emission (electric or hydrogen). Italy, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and France, which buy 70% of the urban buses sold in Europe, lag behind. In 2019, less than 10% of their newly-registered urban buses were electric or hydrogen.

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Ports of Auckland buys world’s first electric tug; 70-tonne bollard pull

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Ports of Auckland (New Zealand) has signed a contract with Dutch company Damen Shipyards to buy the world’s first full-size, fully electric port tug. The purchase price of this tug is significant, at roughly double that of a diesel tug, and that is an important consideration for a business that needs to make a profit. tCO 2 e.

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UC Davis buys 6 NFI electric Xcelsior CHARGE buses using California state contract

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Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. NFI’s New Flyer was selected by DGS as an approved supplier of electric vehicles in 2019.

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Hamburger Hochbahn to buy up to 530 electric buses from Daimler, MAN and Solaris

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Early in 2019, the Hamburg Senate decided that from 2020, only emission-free buses will be procured for Hamburg. On 29 August 2019, Hochbahn issued a Europe-wide framework tender for battery-electric buses, with plans to purchase up to 530 buses between 2021 and 2025.

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