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Stadler wins contracts for up to 120 battery-powered trains, 25 hydrogen trains

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Separately, Italian railway operators Azienda Regionale Sarda Trasporti (ARST) and Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC) awarded Stadler two framework agreements for the supply and maintenance of 10 hydrogen trains for ARST in Sardinia and 15 similar vehicles for FdC in Calabria. The vehicle has an operating range of around 100 kilometers.

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Volta Trucks raises €230M

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and 12-tonne full-electric Volta Zero derivatives, as well as prepare the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria, to start production of customer vehicles by the end of the year. It will also fund the continued development of the recently confirmed 7.5- and 18-tonnes. Volta Trucks looks to eliminate around 1.2

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Volta Trucks bounces back from bankruptcy, resumes ‘sharpened’ commercial EV business plan

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Volta began series production in Austria ahead of those planned deliveries in Q3 2023, but things started to go south once its battery supplier Proterra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last summer. Beyond the UK, Volta Trucks says its customer trials will expand in Q2 to customers in Germany, France, Nordics, and Austria.

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Austrian transport company orders 220 biodiesel-powered trucks from Scania

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This major order follows the introduction of Scania’s 13-litre 450 hp engine, which meets Euro 6 standard for biodiesel operation. The company has also signed a Scania repair and maintenance contract for all of the 220 vehicles ordered. Earlier post.).

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MAN eTGE battery-electric van to be mass-produced from July onwards

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With the relevant battery maintenance, the 36 kWh rechargeable battery only loses around 15% of its ca-pacity after ten years and around 2,000 charging cycles. As with all TGEs, the emergency brake assist (EBA) continues to be installed as standard. Approximately nine hours are needed for a full charge with 220V AC.

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Faurecia acquires Amminex to accelerate efficient NOx reduction for passenger and commercial vehicles

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The development of a complete system, ASDS, consisting of standard components and an intelligent software package that can be tailored and configured to meet specific customer needs and allows the release of stored ammonia on-demand and optimally feeding it to the SCR-catalyst.

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Mercedes-Benz Introducing More BlueTec EEV trucks

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EEV (Enhanced Environmentally Friendly Vehicle) is a European classification used for engines which comply with a more stringent exhaust emission standard that reduces particulate emissions by roughly a further one-third compared to Euro 5 limits. Incentives are offered for this technology in some European countries.

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