National Green Transportation

JULY 10, 2013

Industrial giant ABB announced on Monday they had been selected to support build-out of the Fastned electric car charging network in the Netherlands. Fastned plans to build the largest nation-scale electric car charging system to date, bringing.'

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2017

Today, we put two criticisms of electric cars into context, look at plug-in vehicle sales for the U.S. last month, fill you in on self-driving cars in The Netherlands, and consider when peak demand for oil could arrive. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks—Urban Hubs—in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in city centers and further to accelerate urban e-mobility infrastructure throughout Europe.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 10, 2013

Industrial giant ABB announced on Monday they had been selected to support build-out of the Fastned electric car charging network in the Netherlands. Fastned plans to build the largest nation-scale electric car charging system to date, bringing.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

This past week, thousands of people came out to learn about, experience, and extoll the virtues of the electric car. They were participating in National Drive Electric Week--which, despite its name, has become an international event taking place not only in 150 U.S. cities, but also in Canada, Italy, and The Netherlands.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Electric cars are often touted as a way to avoid gas stations. But electric-car drivers in certain European countries will soon be going to them to charge. That's because a pair of European oil companies plan to add electric-car charging at certain fuel stations.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Students from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have broken the 0-to-60-mph record for an electric car, according to Wired (via Motor Authority). And they did it in a car they built themselves. That car, the DUT13, did 0 to 100 kph (0 to 62 mph) in 2.15 Sure, efficiency is important.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It was quaint and adorable when Norway did it, saying it would end sales of cars with internal-combustion engines by 2025. The Netherlands followed suit, with little fanfare. More recently, France and the U.K. have enacted various forms of bans on non-electrified vehicles, on varying schedules.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Four countries covering 27% of the region’s total surface area—the Netherlands, Germany, France and the UK—account for more than 75% of all electric charging points. More than 80% of all electric cars are sold in just 6 EU countries, with some of the highest GDPs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

VinFast’s factory will create a major manufacturing center in Chatham County’s Triangle Innovation Point megasite, covering an area of 800-hectares, with 3 main areas: electric car and bus production and assembly, EV battery production and ancillary industries for suppliers.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 14, 2019

Wiebe Wakker took one very long drive in an electric car—for a total of 1119 days, covering 59,000 miles and traversing portions of 33 countries on the way from the Netherlands to Australia. It was, by just about any standard, an epic road trip.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Netherlands-based Fastned, a builer and operator of fast-charging networks, and Nissan have expanded their partnership. Fastned currently operates 50 fast charging stations in The Netherlands, and plans European expansion. As of today, every new Nissan LEAF and e-NV200 will include four years of free fast charging at Fastned.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The German Federal Government plan to have one million electric cars on its roads by 2020 has failed, according to the analysis of international management consulting firm Bain & Company. Stricter emission laws and the technological advances in electric drives will accelerate the trend towards e-mobility in the medium term, Bain said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

However, it also shows that where countries have implemented measures to govern the import of used vehicles—notably age and emissions standards —these give them access to high-quality used vehicles, including hybrid and electric cars, at affordable prices. The Netherlands cannot address this issue alone.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2015

Several European countries--including Norway, The Netherlands, and France--aggressively promote electric cars as a way to reduce vehicular carbon emissions. But despite its large domestic car industry, Germany is not among them.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands. Hitachi’s V2X Charger is the first recharger that not only recharges an electric car but can also discharge the energy back into the building/grid providing different flexibilities including kW,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jedlix’ mission is that, in time, all cars will run on renewable energy. Jedlix #ichargesmart manages the charging of an electric car based on the balance between production and consumption of renewable energy. Our software creates a direct link between electric cars and the supply of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

The Netherlands-based Fastned, which plans to build a European network of fast-charging stations has acquired its first 14 locations in Germany. These will be the first of such stations in Germany that are accessible to all car brands, and where EVs can be charged with up to 500 kilometers of range in just 15 minutes.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 11, 2013

Remember all that stuff we said recently about The Netherlands being a haven for electric vehicles? Maybe knock a few degrees of conviction off that statement, as it seems not everyone in the European country is as keen on electric vehicles as some. So much so.'

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

The Netherlands-based Fastned, the company building a European network of fast charging stations, saw its first two stations break-even in March. Fastned began installing stations in The Netherlands in 2015; 57 are currently in operation. The Fastned stations are prepared for strong growth of the number of electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2020

It started in Oslo in 2016 with a rebuilt truck from the Netherlands with a payload of five and a half metric tons. ABB is a world leader in electric vehicle infrastructure, offering the full range of charging and electrification solutions for electric cars, electric and hybrid buses as well as for ships and railways.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Tribecca Film Festival in New York City provided the backdrop to the world premiere of Revenge of the Electric Car -- Chris Paine’s much-anticipated sequel to Who Killed The Electric Car? -- but tomorrow the film will premiere in the Netherlands at a special event attended by a whole tree of Nissan Leafs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

A new study by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands, with colleagues at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, shows that climate policies can strongly increase metal demand. mostly as a result of population and GDP growth.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

Pure electric cars have a 2% market share in France, this being the highest share among all five major markets. France is therefore leading the way in showing how electric cars can have a measurable impact on emissions levels, despite their adoption still lagging behind diesel and gasoline counterparts.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Plug-in cars are catching on in the Netherlands, and it isn't hard to see why. It's a relatively small country, with high gas prices, heavy taxes on gas-guzzlers, and particularly flat land--no range-sapping hills for short-range electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Lauding India’s new policy that promotes electric car manufacturing and cuts import duty on certain cars, Vietnamese automaker VinFast Auto’s India Chief Executive Officer Pham Sanh Chau said the policy will help the company to introduce premium-quality sports utility vehicles at inclusive prices.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2017

California, long a leader in emission reduction and electric-car incentives, may be ready to take the next big step: a full ban on the sale of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

A new study by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) finds that the affordability of electric cars remains a strong deterrent for customers across the EU, along with lack of infrastructure and lack of investment in infrastructure. To put this in context, pure battery-electric cars accounted for just 0.7%

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It also became an international event, with cities in Canada, Mexico, and the Netherlands participating as.' In its third year, the weekend celebration of automotive electrification included events in more than 100 cities--up from 65 last year--on both September 28 and 29.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

This app makes it possible to charge electric cars using renewable energy at times when the market prices are most favorable, such as at night, when the production of sustainable wind energy exceeds demand in most European countries. It is expected that there will be three million electric vehicles in the whole of Europe by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

In 2005, electric cars were still measured in hundreds. 2016 also saw more than 200 million electric two wheelers on the road and 345 thousand buses, primarily in China. China remained the largest market in 2016, accounting for more than 40% of the electric cars sold in the world. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 10, 2012

Public transport is about to get much greener and cleaner in the city of Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands – thanks to the arrival of six new, all-electric BYD buses (pictured). From 2013 onwards, the city, in the province of Friesland, will boast the electric buses which are 40ft long and have room for 60-70 passengers. [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Norway now has two swap stations in operation, and Nio claims it will have 20 swap stations across Europe in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden by the end of this year. Nio has 1071 swap stations in China as of August 2022 but is gearing up to expand its sales and swap station facilities across Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The market share of electric vehicles in the European market in 2013 has increased slightly over last year, from 0.15% to 0.19%—still far behind the forecasts of numerous experts. Currently the Opel Ampera is in third place among European e-car registrations with a market share of almost 10%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2016

While many countries promote electric cars, only Norway has taken the step of putting into place a plan to phase out cars powered by gasoline or diesel fuel entirely. The Dutch parliament recently passed a motion that would end sales of new cars powered solely by.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Fastned is building a European network of fast-charging stations located at high traffic locations along the highway and in cities, where electric cars can charge in 20 minutes. This will provide freedom for electric cars to drive across Europe.

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