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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The first Audi Q8 e-tron drove off the production line at the Brussels plant yesterday, 14 December, marking the beginning of an era for the new top model in Audi’s electric SUV range. AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. The plant has been a model for sustainable production since the production of the Audi e-tron began.

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JULY 18, 2021

De Lijn, the public transport operator (PTO) in the Flemish part of Belgium, is ordering 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses; further, the operator confirmed the upgrade of 280 if its current hybrid buses into e-hybrids. This will enable the e-hybrids to drive several emission-free cycles per day. —Lydia Peeters.

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MAY 19, 2022

The framework contract includes an option for a further 130 new VDL Citeas, which in the coming years will contribute to a further reduction in CO 2 emissions. Amsterdam has developed the Route Map Amsterdam Climate Neutral 2050: the city will reduce its CO 2 emissions by 5% in 2025, 55% in 2030 and 95% in 2050 compared to 1990 levels.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Volvo has received an order for 11 electric hybrid buses and 2 ABB automated electric bus fast-chargers to the city of Namur in Belgium with public transport authority and operator TEC. Volvo’s 7900 Electric Hybrid ( earlier post ) features an all-electric range of approximately seven kilometers (4.35 ABB bus chargers.

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MAY 15, 2023

Now, its electric product range is being made available in new markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production, giving it the industry’s most extensive portfolio of zero exhaust emission trucks.

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APRIL 13, 2020

BREYTNER, a zero-emission transport provider, will operate the truck for three months in retail logistics, such as replenishing stores and feeder lines for zero-emission last-mile solutions. The aim is to demonstrate the truck and the mobile refueling station at 6 locations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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JUNE 2, 2022

The aim of the project, which involves seven European trials in total, is to investigate how hydrogen-fueled trucks can be an effective solution in reducing emissions in refuse vehicles. The four hydrogen tanks on the roof of the vehicle have a capacity of 20 kg, enough for a range of around 200 km (around 124 miles).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With its shorter filling times, high payload and versatility, combined with its attractive range, hydrogen is regarded as a promising fuel for transport logistics. Due to the low emissions from hydrogen combustion, the trucks are also considered as zero-emission vehicles under EU regulations.

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JULY 10, 2020

REVIVE will place 15 fuel cell refuse vehicles to be tested in 8 different cities or regions in Europe: Breda, Helmond, Amsterdam, and Groningen (the Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Bolzano and Merano (in South Tyrol, Italy) and Gothenburg (Sweden). That project was partly funded by the Swedish Energy Agency. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 10 fuel cell modules to power Van Hool A330 buses to be deployed in Emmen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Van Hool A330 Fuel Cell Buses powered by Ballard.

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APRIL 9, 2021

The shift in focus is based on Sogestran Group’s experience gained in Belgium, where Blue Line Logistics (BLL), another subsidiary of the Sogestran Group, operates three cargo vessels sailing under the concept name “Zulu”. The new vessel will be tasked with moving goods on pallets and in containers along the river Seine.

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JULY 2, 2012

2010 NO x emissions (all sectors) and ceilings for 12 EU countries exceeding their limits. The accompanying report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms an initial assessment published earlier this year, showing 12 EU Member States exceeded limits under the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive in 2010.

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JULY 27, 2021

Following a successful demonstration and pilot phase, Air Products plans to convert its global fleet of approximately 2,000 trucks to hydrogen fuel cell zero-emission vehicles. Only hydrogen fuel cell vehicles can provide the necessary range, refueling time, and weight requirements to decarbonize this important transportation sector.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Twelve European Union Member States exceeded one or more of the emission limits set by the EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, according to recent official data for 2010 reported to the European Environment Agency (EEA). In some instances the limits were exceeded by significant amounts. Finland exceeded its ammonia ceiling.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The Audi e-tron and e-tron Sportback are assembled in Brussels, Belgium, in a plant certified as carbon-neutral, according to Belgian testing company Vinçotte, with suppliers also using sustainable production processes when and where possible. The company has set itself the goal of reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW fuel cell modules to power buses in Groningen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Ballard plans to deliver the 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW modules in 2020.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

NO 2 ranged from 1.4 ranged from 2.0 BC ranged from 0.003 to 3.7×10 —Haneen Khreis, lead author of the study and an associated researcher at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. 3 , with a mean of 11.8?µg·m

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Drivers are very pleased with the continuous availability of torque across the entire speed range.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The 12-month program will enable each site to prove that the company’s production processes meet rigorously defined standards across a broad range of social, environmental and governance criteria. The first wave of auditing includes sites in Belgium, Germany, Spain and France with others to follow. Water stewardship and biodiversity.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Vans joined numerous drivers on their routes in order to see where the sticking points were in the daily life of a delivery driver, as well as to ascertain where processes could be optimized and how locally emission-free vehicles can best show their strengths in this domain.

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APRIL 8, 2021

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) Fuel Cell Business will supply and integrate fuel cell modules into a zero-emission train prototype as part of the FCH2RAIL project in Europe. Almost half of the railway lines in the European Union are electrified and enable local emission-free rail transport.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

These combine as many batteries as are needed for tailor-made solutions with capacity ranging from less than 100 kilowatt hours up to 15 megawatt hours or more. Based in the United Kingdom, Connected Energy uses end-of-life EV batteries to create energy storage systems. —Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy.

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JULY 11, 2011

Opel and Europcar have agreed to introduce the Opel Ampera extended range electric vehicle ( earlier post ) as a rental car throughout Europe. The goal is to deploy the first vehicles in Europcar rental outlets in Germany in November of this year, followed soon afterwards by Belgium and the Netherlands.

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APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Kimberly M.

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MAY 23, 2019

This is the largest commitment for use of RNG to date by any company in the United States, with a range of 22.5 - 25 million gallon equivalents per year. And the world has an emissions problem. This is significant because of RNG’s reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional diesel.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Following the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and Belgium, Norway is the 5 th European country to start selling the fuel cell sedan. The latest result of this hard work is the Toyota Mirai, a zero-emission car with a driving range of up to 550 km (342 miles) that can be refueled in 3 to 5 minutes.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Between 2010 and 2017, the highest numbers of electric buses in Europe were registered in the United Kingdom (~200), the Netherlands (~175), Belgium (~140), Germany (~90) and Austria (~75). Consumers also tend to be worried about the cost of electric vehicles, issues linked to the driving range and high maintenance costs.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

Ford revealed the enhanced Mondeo—including a new Hybrid Wagon variant for the first time—at the Brussels Motor Show in Belgium. l/100 km (56 mpg US) for the four-door, and anticipated CO 2 emissions from 101 g/km and fuel efficiency from 4.4 150 PS, delivering from an anticipated 118 g/km CO 2 emissions and from 4.5

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

They can now drive silently and emission-free up to 50 km/h, whereas previously this was only up to 20 km/h. Depending on the weather conditions and topography, up to one kilometer of emission-free driving is possible. The upgrade is available for the full range of Euro 6 hybrid buses.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The electrically-assisted tricycle will help reduce carbon emissions in addition to traffic, noise and air quality challenges in Pittsburgh. From these points, deliveries were made on foot or with specialized electronically-assisted cargo tricycles that ease traffic congestion and reduce emissions each working day. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. With to the hybrid power source, the buses, with a tank capacity of 38.2

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The project will support the deployment of 325 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs), including 125 fuel-cell range-extended electric vans, and 29 Hydrogen Refueling Stations (HRS) across Europe. H2ME is co-funded with €32 million (US$36 million) from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU).

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MAY 27, 2015

l/100 km) on the European combined cycle, a range of 817 miles on one tank of fuel and CO 2 emissions of 99 g/km. On 1 June, two members of Honda’s European Research & Development (R&D) team will set out on the journey from Aalst, Belgium. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

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JUNE 26, 2017

In 2015 Leclanché unveiled its first all-electric bus in Belgium. Most European metropolitan areas are targeting zero-emission environments, and increasing numbers of transport companies are considering a fully-electric solution for their urban bus networks.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Equipped with Opel’s “BlueInjection” SCR (selective catalytic reduction) technology, the engine already meets Euro 6 emissions limits. liter range. At the Geneva Motorshow (7-17 March, 2013) Opel will introduce a new generation diesel engine, the 1.6 CDTI ECOTEC—its cleanest diesel yet—in the seven-seater Zafira Tourer.

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MAY 29, 2018

A study published by the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) has explored the possible impact of increased electrification of road transportation and domestic heating and cooking on the energy system (electricity and gas), as well as on CO 2 emissions and on GDP.

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MARCH 14, 2014

is an electrified vehicle that is used to transport DHL Express shipments at the moment in France as well as in Aruba, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. Vehicles cover all kinds of technologies, starting from bio gas to electrification, and cover the full range of commercial transport vehicle levels. The Kangoo Z.E.

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