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Porsche Rolls Out Electric Trucks As Transport Logistics Fleet

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 7, 2024

Porsche is pushing ahead with the roll-out of alternative drives in its transport logistics fleet: Together with its logistics partners, the sports car manufacturer is using six new electric HGVs (heavy good vehicle) at its Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Leipzig sites.

Porsche

Porsche Transportation Fleet Electric

17 Solaris e-buses to join public transport fleet in Grudzi?dz, Poland; 25% of fleet electric

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2022

dz, Poland signed a contract for the delivery of 17 Solaris electric buses. The contract covers not only the delivery of the vehicles, but also of the charging devices, including pantograph chargers. million), about 25% of the bus fleet in Grudzi? With this investment, worth more than PLN 40 million (US$9.5

Poland

Poland Fleet Transportation Energy Storage

Barbados receiving 35 BYD electric buses; first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

BYD delivered the first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean, opening up an exciting new chapter in the region’s efforts to tackle climate change. The Barbados Transport Board recently received 33 BYD battery-electric buses and two more of the 30-foot buses will be delivered by December.

Barbados

Barbados BYD Transportation Fleet

Moscow rolling out all-electric bus fleet in New Moscow district

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

Moscow, which overall has the largest electric bus fleet in Europe ( earlier post ) has 8 separate bus fleets—all of them consisting of a mixture of e-buses and diesel buses. Now, the Russian capital is deploying its first all-electric bus fleet in the New Moscow district. thousand tonnes/year.

Fleet

Fleet All-Electric Russia Electric

Zeem launches first commercial electric vehicle Transportation-As-A-Service depot

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

Fleet electrification provider Zeem Solutions has opened its first commercial EV transportation-as-a-service depot in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Zeem works with local utilities and renewable energy providers to ensure vehicles are charged using clean, reliable and low-cost energy.

Commercial

Commercial Transportation Electric Vehicles Los Angeles

ABB E-mobility unveils HVC360 for fleet charging

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

ABB E-mobility announced details of its new HVC360 fleet charging solution. While the growing number of public charging points is excellent news for EV drivers, these alone do not meet the needs of electric fleets. Slightly fewer than 66,000 electric busses were sold worldwide in 2022, around 4.5% of total bus sales.

Fleet

Fleet Charging Global Europe

ComEd Adds First All-Electric Bucket Trucks to Its Growing Fleet of Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 10, 2024

ComEd on track to electrify 50 percent of its vehicle fleet and reduce operations-driven emissions by 50 percent by 2030 As part of its continued commitment to accelerate the electrification of transportation, ComEd yesterday announced the addition of two new, all-electric bucket trucks to its fleet.

All-Electric

All-Electric Fleet Electric Vehicles Vehicles

Pace purchases 20 Proterra ZX5 electric buses and EV fleet charging infrastructure

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

million contract for 20 Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses, featuring more than 13 megawatt hours of battery storage energy, and two Proterra megawatt-scale fleet chargers. Designed and manufactured in the United States, Proterra’s electric transit buses are equipped with the company’s own battery technology systems.

Fleet

Fleet Purchase North America Energy Storage

Australian transport company to power 30-strong electric truck fleet with off-grid solar and batteries

The Driven EV News

MARCH 6, 2024

Transport and logistics company to create a 30-strong electric truck fleet that will be used for metro deliveries but will be powered and charged only by a massive off-grid solar and battery system.

Grid

Grid Solar Fleet Transportation

Highland Electric Transportation raises $253M to accelerate electrification of school fleets

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey fleet solutions delivering the latest in zero-emission technologies to school districts and fleet managers, has raised $253 million to accelerate its growth. My partners and I believe millions of fleet vehicles will electrify.

Highlander

Highlander Fleet Transportation North Carolina

DoD to prototype commercial hybrid conversion kits for tactical vehicles; XL Fleet and Volta Power

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The US Army’s Project Manager Transportation Systems (PM TS), part of Program Executive Office for Combat Support & Combat Service Support (PEO CS&CSS), has partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a hybrid conversion kit for tactical vehicles. This results in significant fuel consumption while the vehicle idles.

Kits

Kits Conversion Fleet Commercial

BNEF: net-zero road transport by 2050 still possible, but big push needed

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The road transport sector could still reach net-zero emissions by 2050 through electrification, but urgent action would be required from policymakers and industry participants, according to research company BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) latest annual Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook (EVO). million sold in 2021 to 21 million in 2025.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions Fleet Economy

Berlin receives 90 electric Solaris buses; BVG Solaris electric fleet totals 123

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Solaris has completed the delivery of 90 Urbino 12 electric buses for Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Berlin now has a total of 123 electric Solaris buses in its fleet. In June 2019, the public transport operator from Berlin ordered 90 12-meter Urbino 12 buses. All 90 vehicles are now in regular service.

Fleet

Fleet Electric Electrical Europe

Anaheim Transportation Network receives $5M to further all-electric transit operation; partners with AMPLY Power

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

The Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) was awarded a $5-million grant to advance its effort to become California’s first all-electric transit operator. ATN’s public transportation network plays an important role in connection of residents, visitors and employees to numerous regional employment centers.

All-Electric

All-Electric Transportation Power Powered

Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

Transportation

Transportation South Africa Lithium Sulfur Congo

DB Schenker expands its electric fleet with 36 new FUSO eCanter vehicles

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

International logistics service provider DB Schenker will bring a total of 36 additional FUSO eCanter vehicles into operation in eleven European countries. Europe’s leading land transport provider is thus strengthening its sustainability strategy and further expanding the use of electric vehicles in its mixed fleets.

Fleet

Fleet Vehicles Electric Electrical

Canada Post commits to fully electric fleet by 2040, half by 2030; RFQ for EV pilot

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada Post has earmarked $1 billion to cut emissions and transform its fleet. With nearly 14,000 vehicles and Canada’s largest retail network of close to 6,000 post offices, Canada Post acknowledges its footprint is significant. The compact electric vehicle reaches maximum speeds of 40 km/h.

Canada

Canada Fleet Fully Electric Electric

Tevva and Vattenfall collaborate to develop zero-emission transport solution; electric with hydrogen range extender

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Electric truck company Tevva and Vattenfall signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunity to provide a complete zero-emission transport solution for businesses looking to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations. Tevva is an electric truck company with optional range extension technology that allows its 7.5-19t

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Transportation Emissions Range

XL Fleet partnering with Curbtender to develop all-electric and plug-in hybrid refuse trucks

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

XL Fleet Corp. has entered into a strategic partnership with Curbtender , a market leader in Under CDL (vehicles that do not require a Commercial Drivers License) refuse trucks and a pioneer in automated side-loader collection. —Dimitri Kazarinoff, XL Fleet CEO. Curbtender Quantum.

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Plug-in Fleet All-Electric Plug

VIA Motors sells 2,000 Class 3 electric chassis cabs to Pegasus Specialty Vehicles

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

VIA Motors, a provider of electric drive technology and sustainable mobility solutions for a wide variety of Class 2 – 5 electric commercial vehicles applications, has received a purchase order for 2,000 Class 3 VIA electric cutaway chassis cabs from Pegasus Specialty Vehicles.

Motor

Motor Motors Motoring United States

Purolator deploys fully electric delivery vehicles in Vancouver; Motiv Power Systems

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

Purolator is taking another step in greening its fleet with the arrival of fully electric curbside-delivery trucks in Vancouver—the first to be launched nationally by a Canadian courier company. Purolator’s new electric delivery vehicles are built on Ford’s F-59 platform and electrified by Motiv Power Systems.

Fully Electric

Fully Electric Power Powered Vehicles

Volvo and Danfoss introduce first 24-hour e-truck fleet

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Volvo has delivered three heavy-duty line-haul electric trucks to Danfoss. The delivery of the three e-trucks is part of a larger partnership between Volvo Trucks and Danfoss, focusing on pioneering sustainable electric transport operations. Nine fully electric Volvo trucks are set to be in operation before 2024.

Volvo

Volvo Fleet Denmark DC

Dachser to add 50 Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul electric trucks to fleet

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The logistics service provider Dachser is planning to add 50 units of Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul ( earlier post ), presented at this year’s IAA Transportation, to its European fleet. Dachser intends to use the eActros LongHaul configured as a 6x2 swap body vehicle with a storage height of 1,120 mm.

Mercedes

Mercedes Fleet Electric Electrical

MAN introduces electric armored money transporter based on MAN eTGE

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

MAN handed over the world’s first electrically powered armored money transporter to the international security service provider Prosegur at the beginning of August. The electric van can seat a maximum of three people. Prosegur is now putting the electric vehicle through testing.

Transportation

Transportation Electric Electrical International

DTF: Diesel dominates commercial truck, transit and school bus fleets in US

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Diesel is the predominant technology in commercial trucking, school, and transit bus sectors, according to the Diesel Technology Forum’s analysis of data sourced from S&P Global Mobility TIPNet data of vehicles in operation for Class 3-8 as of December 2021. Electric and other categories each register less than 1%.

Diesel

Diesel Fleet Commercial District of Columbia

Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Starting immediately, Deutsche Post is offsetting any unavoidable CO 2 emissions due to mail transport with investments in internationally recognized and certified climate protection projects at no extra charge. For the last ten years, DHL has transported all parcels for private customers with its climate-friendly “GoGreen” service.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions Climate Protection CO2

9 national, regional, state and city governments sign up to ZEV Pledge for their fleets; 121,355 vehicles

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ZEV Pledge asks governments at all levels, as well as individual departments, agencies and public sector bodies, to pledge to convert their entire owned or leased fleets, where feasible, to zero-emission vehicles. Light-duty vehicles (4+ wheels) by 2035. Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by 2040.

Fleet

Fleet New York Washington Vehicles

Major companies with large fleets release new EV roadmap for car & truck manufacturers

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2022

Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance presented top vehicle manufacturers, including Volvo, GM, Daimler and Toyota, with a roadmap for developing the types of electric vehicles that companies plan to acquire in the US over the next five years. million on-road vehicles in the United States.

Fleet

Fleet Manufacturer Companies Corporation

BYD to add another 183 electric buses to Santiago’s fleet

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

The Chilean Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, recently announced a new order for 183 BYD electric buses for the Chilean capital of Santiago, due to arrive in August of this year. The existing fleet of K9FEs operating in Santiago. The first 100 BYD buses were delivered to Santiago in December 2018.

BYD

BYD Fleet Ecuador Uruguay

Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. This extra vehicle travel increases estimated congestion, crash risk, and noise externalities by 2–3% (2–3¢ per trip).

Fleet

Fleet All-Electric Carbon Emissions

NFI expands Class 8 electric truck fleet in Southern California through JETSI; delivery of first 15 of 50 trucks

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

NFI, one of the US’ oldest and largest third-party supply chain solutions providers, is expanding its fleet of Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) in Southern California as part of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative ( JETSI ) project.

Fleet

Fleet California North America Los Angeles

Cracow orders 18 articulated Solaris electric buses, bringing e-bus fleet to 114

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Solaris won a tender held by public transport operator Miejskie Przedsi?biorstwo biorstwo Komunikacyjne (MPK) in Cracow for the delivery of electric buses. At the end of October the carrier signed a contract with the manufacturer for the delivery of 18 articulated electric vehicles.

Fleet

Fleet Hydrogen Electric Electrical

ChargeTronix Introduces 480 kW Nexus Distributed Charging System for Fleets that Can Charge up to Six Electric Vehicles Simultaneously

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 21, 2024

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — ChargeTronix, a leading global provider of reliable and intelligent electric vehicle charging infrastructure, today introduced its new 480 kW Nexus Distributed Charger, which is designed to support the charging needs for commercial fleets as they shift to electric trucking.

Las Vegas

Las Vegas Fleet Charging Electric Vehicles

Exelon to electrify 30% of utility vehicle fleet by 2025; 50% by 2030

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon Corporation today announced that its six electric and gas utilities will continue advancing transportation electrification to benefit customers and communities by taking major steps to electrify its fleet of vehicles. Exelon’s utilities have a combined fleet of more than 7,200 vehicles.

Fleet

Fleet District of Columbia Vehicles New Jersey

DHE begins piloting Volvo VNR Electric heavy-duty trucks in SoCal fleet

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Freight operator Dependable Highway Express (DHE) has received two Volvo VNR Electric trucks—the first battery-electric Class 8 trucks to join DHE’s fleet. The electric trucks will be added to DHE’s existing fleet of more than 500 Volvo trucks operating across North America. Earlier post.).

Volvo

Volvo Fleet North America California

Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America customer, Quality Custom Distribution (QCD)—a Golden State Foods (GSF) company—is increasing its commitment to zero-tailpipe emission freight transport with its latest order of 30 Volvo VNR Electrics. The remaining trucks of the order will be deployed throughout 2022 and early 2023.

Volvo

Volvo Fleet California St. Louis

Schneider taking delivery of 92 Class 8 eCascadia electric trucks

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schneider, a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services, will soon begin taking delivery of 92 Class 8 battery-electric Freightliner e-Cascadia trucks ( earlier post ) at its intermodal operations in Southern California. Battery electric trucks will help further meet these goals.

North America

North America Portland Detroit Oregon

Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 electric commercial vehicles to Macnab EV Sales

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

to deliver 126 vehicles to the Canadian commercial vehicle distributor by the end of 2023. The full order of 126 vehicles includes ZEV3 cargo and passenger van configurations and ZEV4 shuttle buses. Macnab has been a leader in the Canadian commercial transportation industry since 1935.

Commercial

Commercial Sale DC Vehicles

Maritime Transport begins electrification of trucking fleet

Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

One of the UK’s leading road and rail logistics companies, Maritime Transport, is making some big moves in a bid to electrify its trucking fleet – with fully 18 all-electric, three axle tractor units from Scania leading the charge. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

Transportation

Transportation Fleet Insight Gas-Electric

Helbiz partners with Lightning eMotors to deploy electric vans for fleet management

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

Micro-mobility company Helbiz is exploring the electrification of its fleet with Lightning eMotors. Following the completion of the current pilot program, Helbiz plans to deploy Lightning Electric Ford Transit 350HD vans throughout Miami and Washington DC to manage its intra-urban operations.

Fleet

Fleet Miami Arlington New York City

Peak ICE Fleet Is Closer Than We Believe

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 18, 2024

Let’s start with some brief history on the transition to EV sales, and then get to the big topic: transitioning the ICEV (internal combustion engine vehicle) fleet to electricity. The world passed peak ICEV sales back in 2017 EVs were only a small fraction of total vehicle sales back then.

Fleet

Fleet 2017 Sale International

RTC of Southern Nevada adds state’s first two hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to fleet; 7 more on order

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) has added two hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to its fleet. This technology is the first of its kind in Nevada, and the buses are the first hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to be operational statewide. The hydrogen buses were funded with a $3.8-million

Nevada

Nevada Hydrogen Fleet Fuel

The Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet In The US Will Belong To…The US Postal Service

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Postal Service has tapped the Ford E-Transit electric van to help electrify the entire mail delivery infrastructure. The post The Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet In The US Will Belong To…The US Postal Service appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Fleet

Fleet Electric Vehicles Vehicles Ford

Blue Bird Debuts Electric Step Van at 2024 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo

Electric Cars Report

MAY 21, 2024

Electric school bus maker Blue Bird will debut its electric-powered step van at the upcoming 2024 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, North America’s largest advanced transportation technology and clean fleet event.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Transportation Electric

Porsche Rolls Out Electric Trucks As Transport Logistics Fleet

17 Solaris e-buses to join public transport fleet in Grudzi?dz, Poland; 25% of fleet electric

Barbados receiving 35 BYD electric buses; first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean

Moscow rolling out all-electric bus fleet in New Moscow district

Zeem launches first commercial electric vehicle Transportation-As-A-Service depot

ABB E-mobility unveils HVC360 for fleet charging

ComEd Adds First All-Electric Bucket Trucks to Its Growing Fleet of Electric Vehicles

Pace purchases 20 Proterra ZX5 electric buses and EV fleet charging infrastructure

Australian transport company to power 30-strong electric truck fleet with off-grid solar and batteries

Highland Electric Transportation raises $253M to accelerate electrification of school fleets

DoD to prototype commercial hybrid conversion kits for tactical vehicles; XL Fleet and Volta Power

BNEF: net-zero road transport by 2050 still possible, but big push needed

Berlin receives 90 electric Solaris buses; BVG Solaris electric fleet totals 123

Anaheim Transportation Network receives $5M to further all-electric transit operation; partners with AMPLY Power

Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

DB Schenker expands its electric fleet with 36 new FUSO eCanter vehicles

Canada Post commits to fully electric fleet by 2040, half by 2030; RFQ for EV pilot

Tevva and Vattenfall collaborate to develop zero-emission transport solution; electric with hydrogen range extender

XL Fleet partnering with Curbtender to develop all-electric and plug-in hybrid refuse trucks

VIA Motors sells 2,000 Class 3 electric chassis cabs to Pegasus Specialty Vehicles

Purolator deploys fully electric delivery vehicles in Vancouver; Motiv Power Systems

Volvo and Danfoss introduce first 24-hour e-truck fleet

Dachser to add 50 Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul electric trucks to fleet

MAN introduces electric armored money transporter based on MAN eTGE

DTF: Diesel dominates commercial truck, transit and school bus fleets in US

Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

9 national, regional, state and city governments sign up to ZEV Pledge for their fleets; 121,355 vehicles

Major companies with large fleets release new EV roadmap for car & truck manufacturers

BYD to add another 183 electric buses to Santiago’s fleet

Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

NFI expands Class 8 electric truck fleet in Southern California through JETSI; delivery of first 15 of 50 trucks

Cracow orders 18 articulated Solaris electric buses, bringing e-bus fleet to 114

ChargeTronix Introduces 480 kW Nexus Distributed Charging System for Fleets that Can Charge up to Six Electric Vehicles Simultaneously

Exelon to electrify 30% of utility vehicle fleet by 2025; 50% by 2030

DHE begins piloting Volvo VNR Electric heavy-duty trucks in SoCal fleet

Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

Schneider taking delivery of 92 Class 8 eCascadia electric trucks

Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 electric commercial vehicles to Macnab EV Sales

Maritime Transport begins electrification of trucking fleet

Helbiz partners with Lightning eMotors to deploy electric vans for fleet management

Peak ICE Fleet Is Closer Than We Believe

RTC of Southern Nevada adds state’s first two hydrogen fuel cell electric buses to fleet; 7 more on order

The Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet In The US Will Belong To…The US Postal Service

Blue Bird Debuts Electric Step Van at 2024 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo

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