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Sweden inaugurates its first electric road

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Sweden inaugurated a test stretch of electric road on the E16 in Sandviken, thus becoming one of the first countries to conduct tests with electric power for heavy transports on public roads. Vinnova: Develops Sweden’s capacity for innovating sustainable growth and societal benefit. The test stretch on the E16 is two kilometers long.

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Tesla’s massive deal with Hertz will not take effect in Sweden

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Tesla’s massive deal with Hertz to add 100,000 Model 3 electric vehicles to its fleet will not take effect in Sweden, according to the company. Hertz Sweden will not include Model 3 vehicles, according to Cecilia Saberi, the company’s communication manager in the country. However, the numbers tell a different story.

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Solaris participating in electric road trial in Sweden

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The demonstration site is to be situated in the city of Lund in southern Sweden, where a one-kilometer section of the road will be equipped with conductive rails, each of them one meter long and laid atop the road. It also allows to save time as there in no more need for regular stops for the recharge.

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First look: 2022 Volvo XC60 Recharge PHEV boosted to 35 EV miles

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But the Gothenburg, Sweden-based company couldn’t help but give us a quick drive in the bigger XC60 Recharge plug-in hybrid while we waited. The post First look: 2022 Volvo XC60 Recharge PHEV boosted to 35 EV miles appeared first on Electrek. Volvo flew us out to sunny Palm Springs to test the relatively new C40 BEV.

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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The capacity increase comes as Volvo Cars also reports its full-year sales results for 2020, which showed a strong growth in demand for the company’s Recharge models.

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Recharge Chooses the Driivz Platform to Manage the Nordics’ Largest Open EV Fast Charging Network

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Driivz, the leading end-to-end smart EV charging and energy management software platform, today announced that Nordics charge point operator Recharge has migrated its network of approximately 4,000 public EV charge points in Norway, Sweden and Finland to the Driivz platform. More information here.

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Volvo Cars sales up 12.6% in the first 10 months of 2021; share of electrified cars >25% of all units sold for 10 months, 31.5% in October

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The share of Volvo Cars with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain—the Recharge models—amounted to 25.5% For the month of October, the share of Recharge cars accounted for 31.5% During the month of October, Volvo Cars also started production of the fully electric C40 Recharge in Ghent. of the overall sales.

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