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Mitsubishi Fuso to deliver 20 eCanter trucks to Australia Post

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. In October, Australia Post will become the first local customer to integrate the electric light-duty truck into its daily operations. hours to fully recharge. The eCanter, which falls under the 7.5-ton

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

EV Info

Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. A fire broke out on the world’s first hydrogen carrier vessel in Australia shortly before it set sail to Japan carrying the world’s first international shipment of liquefied hydrogen (LH2) in January, it has emerged. Jo is just one of many pitching the benefits of Hydrogen.

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Hertz goes big on EVs, now with 100 Polestar 2s in Australian rental fleet

EV Central

Hertz is planning to lead the charge with electric rental cars in Australia – and it’s taken the next step with a batch of Polestar 2 EVs. The rental car giant has added 100 Polestars to its Australian fleet as part of a broader long-term vision to eventually switch its fleet to all-electric.

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Too little, too late? Why the Toyota HiLux EV concept only shows how far the brand is behind Tesla and BYD

EV Central

Locally, Toyota has yet to even put a BEV on-sale and, of course, it makes a fortune out of CO2 and particulate-emitting diesel SUVs and utes. And it has confirmed the bZ4X BEV launches in early 2024 in Australia. At the moment only LDV sells an ex-factory battery electric ute in Australia, but many more are potentially coming.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Email Neal. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles. We then systematically increased the share of EVs among new vehicle sales until the cumulative fleet emissions fell within the budget. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S