Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2021
Solaris Bus & Coach has begun the delivery of vehicles under a deal signed in May 2019. Solaris has begun delivery of 12 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen models, finalizing a contract signed in May 2019. Public transport operator SASA Bolzano, Italy was the first of Solaris’ clients to opt for the hydrogen Urbino model.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2021
In Sweden, Norway and Finland, respectively 26%, 24%, and 23% of urban buses registered in 2019 were zero-emission (electric or hydrogen). In 2019, less than 10% of their newly-registered urban buses were electric or hydrogen. Italy, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and France, which buy 70% of the urban buses sold in Europe, lag behind.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2021
The BMW Group has created a closed-loop material cycle for tungsten used in drill and milling bits for industrial machinery used in producing cars; the company is collecting old drill and milling bits at its plants in Germany and Austria for recycling. About half of this comes from the BMW Group plant in Steyr, Austria.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In 2019 alone, around 40 million tons of freight were transported by truck via the four-lane transit route located at an altitude of up to 1,370 meters at the border between Austria and Italy. A major point on the checklist of the test program: crossing the Brenner Pass, one of the main arteries of European freight traffic.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The project complements the first IPCEI in the battery value chain that the Commission approved in December 2019 with €3.2
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Wiener Linien transport company in Vienna, Austria has ordered 60 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro vehicles. Wiener Linien recently completed the renewal of the bus fleet comprising around 400 vehicles at the end of 2019. The low-floor buses with zero local emissions will be delivered from next year until 2025.
Green Car Congress
JULY 2, 2022
In 2019 alone, emissions reached 144 million tonnes of CO 2. The Large Engines Competence Center (LEC) in Graz, Austria, was responsible for the overall coordination of the project, while the startup SES-HyDepot e.U. The remaining carbon dioxide is stored in the tank and reused in onshore methanol production. © Fraunhofer.
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