article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Europe’s leading land transport provider is thus strengthening its sustainability strategy and further expanding the use of electric vehicles in its mixed fleets. With these latest vehicles, DB Schenker will become FUSO’s largest electric fleet customer with a total of 41 eCanter vehicles in daily operations.

Fleet 284
article thumbnail

Parker Project demonstrates cross-brand V2G in Denmark; more tests of grid services slated

Green Car Congress

The Parker Project has used a fleet of four vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe and Nissan to demonstrate that vehicles from different car brands can contribute to supporting the electricity grid with vehicle to grid (V2G) services. Parker’s test plan contains 11 services which will be tested during the winter of 2017.

Denmark 170
article thumbnail

T&E study finds cruise ships emitting 10x more SOx in Europe port cities than all Europe’s 260M cars

Green Car Congress

An in-house study by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more SO x than all of Europe’s 260+ million passenger vehicles. Cruise ships also emit NO x equivalent to 15% of Europe’s car fleet every year.

Greece 353
article thumbnail

EEA: no improvements on average CO2 emissions from new cars registered in 2017 in Europe

Green Car Congress

Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). While past years have seen steady declines, new passenger cars registered in 2017 emitted on average 0.4 Source: EEA. A total of 15.1

2017 199
article thumbnail

Ballard-powered fuel-cell tram-buses from Van Hool now in revenue service in France

Green Car Congress

Ballard initially announced a Letter of Intent in September, 2017 and shipped modules to Van Hool in 2018. Ballard’s customer service organization at our Hobro, Denmark facility is available to support the ExquiCity fleet as well as all other Ballard-powered buses operating in Europe.

France 347
article thumbnail

IEA report draws lessons from rapid uptake of EVs in Nordic countries

Green Car Congress

In proportion to its population, the Nordic region—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden—is strikingly ahead of the rest of the world in adopting electric cars. With almost 250,000 electric cars at the end of 2017, the five countries account for roughly 8% of the total number of electric cars around the world.

Iceland 186
article thumbnail

Nel ASA awarded multi-billion NOK contract for 448 electrolyzers (1 GW) by Nikola Motor

Green Car Congress

It will secure fast and cost efficient fueling of Nikola’s fleet of hydrogen trucks, delivering support to major customers like Anheuser-Busch, as well as a growing fleet of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. We’ll begin fleet testing the Nikola hydrogen electric semi-trucks in 2019.

Motors 270