Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The cooperation includes exclusive, worldwide first pilot tests of a fully electric Volvo FH truck with gross combination weights up to 60 tons. Starting in March, the truck will operate between two DHL Freight logistics terminals in Sweden, a distance of approximately 150 km (93 miles). —Uwe Brinks, CEO at DHL Freight.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

The creation of the stand-alone joint venture and the transfer of assets allows Volvo Cars to focus fully on the development of its new range of all-electric premium cars in coming years. By 2030, it plans for every car it sells to be pure electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2 billion; Volvo expects around 20% to be funded by governmental support.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

A total of more than 6,000 Wille multi-function machines have been sold so far with its main markets in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and North America. The standard Wille 665 unit is currently powered by an 83 kW Caterpillar diesel. —Paul McNamara, Technical Director for Williams Advanced Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

GKN Automotive unveiled the first battery-electric vehicle (BEV) with a two-speed transmission and torque vectoring on the front axle. It has already supplied complete eDrive systems to plug-in hybrid programs for OEMs including BMW, Mitsubishi, Porsche and Volvo.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

billion) in its Torslanda manufacturing plant in Sweden in coming years, in preparation for the production of the next generation of fully electric cars. These include the introduction of mega casting of aluminum body parts, a new battery assembly plant and fully refurbished paint and final assembly shops.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Electric cars accounted for around 18% of all cars sold in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and only 2% five years earlier, in 2018. These trends indicate that growth remains robust as electric car markets mature. Battery electric cars accounted for 70% of the electric car stock in 2023, states the IEA annual report of the EV global parc.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 11, 2021

DHL Express an international courier, package delivery and express mail service and Eviation a global manufacturer of all- electric aircraft has announced that DHL is the first to order 12 fully electric Alice eCargo planes from Eviation. The DHL aims to set up an electric Express network.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

MAN is already well on its way to developing an electric distribution truck, the eTGM, which is scheduled to go into series production in 2021. We plan to deliver the first nine fully electric trucks to our customers in Austria by the end of 2017 – including large supermarket chains, breweries and haulers. Earlier post.)

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