Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The logistics service provider Dachser is planning to add 50 units of Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul ( earlier post ), presented at this year’s IAA Transportation, to its European fleet. In eleven European cities, battery electric vans and trucks deliver all consignments locally CO 2 -neutral as standard in a defined inner-city area.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

With 2,473 AGC train cars in operation today, the AGC is the largest regional fleet operated in France. To help France meet its sustainability targets, Bombardier will now convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

As the fourth model in the series, the Audi activesphere concept marks the culmination of sphere concept vehicles, following on from the Audi skysphere roadster in 2021, and both the Audi grandsphere sedan, and the Audi urbansphere space concept in April 2022. The Sportback rear of the 4.98

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

BMW unveiled the BMW Concept i4 EV using a livestream instead of the planned Geneva venue. The BMW Concept i4 represents a look ahead to the BMW i4, slated to enter production in 2021. Powered by fifth-generation BMW eDrive technology, the i4 has a very slim battery with optimum energy density.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

These fleet truck concepts are powered by Panasonic’s proprietary software and cloud services platform OneConnect and represent a more accessible and a more agile fleet approach conceived to keep business flowing in tight or last mile spaces.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) is investing a further €20 million in the procurement of vehicles for fleets and the development of charging infrastructure as part of its electromobility funding guideline. The ministry approved a total of 86 projects, 36 of them by municipalities and 50 by companies.

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Electrek

JANUARY 26, 2024

Th electronic controls experts at Moog Construction have launched the ZQuip Modular Battery System as a lower cost electrification option that enables fleets to convert their diesel-powered heavy equipment into zero-emissions vehicles at a lower cost than buying all-new machines.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 18, 2023

As businesses transition to greener alternatives, the concept of an electric fleet is becoming increasingly popular. However, managing and operating such a fleet requires a unique set of strategies and considerations. Infrastructure Needs for Electric Fleets Charging Speeds: Different EVs require different charging speeds.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since then, the Tesla Semi fleet has grown into almost 100 vehicles, as confirmed by Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy. The post Tesla Semi fleet now almost 100 units, confirms exec appeared first on TESLARATI. Then, we made it so efficient we didn’t need to do that. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Th electronic controls experts at Moog Construction have launched the ZQuip Modular Battery System as a lower cost electrification option that enables fleets to convert their diesel-powered heavy equipment into zero-emissions vehicles at a lower cost than buying all-new machines. And if fleet managers get the math wrong?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

At the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show in October, MFTBC unveiled the Vision F-CELL, a light-duty fuel-cell concept truck. The Vision F-CELL delivers 135 kW of motor power, supplied by a 75 kW fuel cell and a 135 kW high-voltage battery. The modular high-voltage battery provides from 13.8

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ram Trucks, the US truck arm of global automaker Stellantis , took the wraps off what it called the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept truck on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Paradigm breaker’ plug-in hybrid to come.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

As the exclusive shuttle partner, Audi is providing a fleet of 50 Audi e-tron cars for the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2019. Further, with mobile charging containers, the company is demonstrating a potential application of second-life batteries from electric cars. The all-electric cars are fully powered by green electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Audi is testing factory vehicles powered by used lithium-ion batteries at its main plant in Ingolstadt. Factory vehicles in Audi’s production plants such as fork-lift trucks and tow tractors have so far been powered by lead-acid batteries. This saves space and also eliminates the high manual effort required to replace the batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2020

There, MAN Truck & Bus and VHH want to work together to test how used batteries behave after initial use in vehicles and as a stationary energy storage system, under real-world operating conditions. The 50 batteries in the container were previously installed in VW Passat GTE vehicles. Each battery has a nominal capacity of 9.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Requirements for long-range transport, flexibility in use, battery charging on the go, high payloads and the space required for passengers and luggage are indispensable and in part contradictory. Based on the concept evaluation, two prototype drivetrains will then be developed and integrated into the demonstration vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

build the next generation Bustech XDi low floor transit bus using Cummins battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell technologies. The agreement provides for initial units to be developed for both battery-electric and fuel-cell electric, with plans to ramp up production in late 2021 and early 2022, respectively.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2022

When will the same happen for commercial fleets? How long until we see electric fleets taking over the supply chain? Where Are EV Fleets Now? While you may not see many electric long-haul trucks on the road, fleet electrification is well underway. What’s Holding EV Fleets Back? Electric Fleets May Not Be Far Off.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

At CES in Las Vegas, Toyota Motor introduced the autonomous electric e-Palette Concept Vehicle, which is designed to meet the demands of future multi-mode transportation and business applications. In the near term, the Alliance will focus on the development of the new e-Palette Concept Vehicle. e-Palette Concept Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2023

P7-C was developed based on direct feedback from ongoing customer evaluations of proof-of-concept vehicles and is designed to meet fleet owners’ specific needs. The P7-B box truck has a common cab design with the P7-C and targets the large and highly popular class 3 last-mile segment popular with commercial fleets and rental companies.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

California’s Clean Off-Road Equipment (CORE) Voucher Project aims to make it easier for commercial fleets to decarbonize. This year, Range Energy bumped its largest battery offering to 300 kWh. The state, in turn, showed its confidence in the electric trailer concept by bumping that rebate a full 50%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars has opened a factory for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) batteries in the Bangkok region in Thailand. The new battery factory was built on a 50,000 m² site located at the vehicle manufacturing plant in the Bangkok region. The new plant is the third production facility in the company’s global battery production network.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

BUZZ CARGO concept—the first commercial vehicle to be based on the new I.D. The models can be delivered with different battery sizes according to the vehicles’ intended use and budget. BUZZ CARGO concept is positioned in the size class beneath the Crafter. The payload of the concept vehicle is 800 kg; the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. Truly CO 2 -neutral transport only works with battery-electric or hydrogen-based drive. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 6, 2022

If you’ve been napping the past couple months and missed these concepts, you may have missed a glimpse of the future of electric vehicles. As with all concepts, there is no guarantee they will be built or will look much like the concept once it arrives at your local dealership. Polestar 02. Sony Vision-S. Lexus Sports Car.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

At CES in Las Vegas, the Honda Saloon and Space-Hub concepts provided a head-turning first look at the automaker’s 0 Series (Zero Series) EVs set to launch starting in 2026. These models aim to go “thin, light, and wise,” with high efficiency and low battery degradation, and they include by-wire steering.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 2, 2022

Buick has become the last of GM’s four brands has finally laid out some of its electrification plans , showing off a concept car, a new logo and pledging to be all-electric by the end of the decade. The Buick Wildcat EV concept (using another historic brand name ) showcases the design language that will be used in the Electra line.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

Bollinger Motors has unveiled its DELIVER-E all-electric delivery van concept. Our DELIVER-E van gives commercial fleets the power to go green and save on ownership costs, while neighborhoods will benefit from a reduction in air and noise pollution. —Robert Bollinger, CEO of Bollinger Motors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We are certain that hydrogen is set to gain significantly in importance for individual mobility and therefore consider a mixture of battery and fuel cell electric drive systems to be a sensible approach in the long term. This makes its hydrogen fuel cell technology an attractive complementary alternative to the battery electric drive system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Siemens unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging concept structure designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging applications at scale. The busway power distribution equipment is manufactured at Siemens’ 540-person manufacturing hub in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 25, 2022

EV Fleets Will Change the Face of Trucking Forever. The industry will never be the same once EV fleets are adopted. International has its Next Zero line of zero-emissions vehicles that employ electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. Perhaps the biggest advantage of electric fleets is fewer emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover in 2016, Mercedes-Benz displayed its concept for a heavy-duty electric distribution truck for urban areas: the Urban eTruck ( earlier post ). The energy for a range of up to 200 km is provided by two lithium-ion batteries with an output of 240 kWh. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

Freightliner plans to deliver an Electric Innovation Fleet of 30 vehicles to customers later this year for further testing under real-world operating conditions. The batteries provide 550 kWh usable capacity, a range of up to 250 miles (402 km) and have the ability to charge up to 80% (providing a range of 200 miles) in about 90 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, and LG Chem are jointly sponsoring the “EV & Battery Challenge” (EVBC), a global competition to identify up to 10 EV and battery start-ups for potential investment and collaboration. Hyundai and Kia have gained prominence in the global market with a comprehensive portfolio of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

MAN, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is now selling a battery-electric van, the MAN eTGE. For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. A 40 kW charging station fills a battery up to 80% in 45 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

As well as the latest series-production models, the fleet of shuttles also featured three examples of the new BMW i7 xDrive60 (electric power consumption combined in WLTP cycle: 19.6 – 18.4 The production development process for the luxury sedan already made allowance for the next-generation high-security vehicle’s new protection concept.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Mercedes-Benz Trucks celebrated the world premiere of its battery-electric eActros for heavy-duty short-radius distribution—its first series-produced electric truck. The battery of the eActros series-production model is equipped with either three or four battery packs, each with an energy capacity of around 105 kWh.

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