Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge is available online via volvocars.com in select markets across Europe as of this week. The propulsion system consists of twin electric motors, one on the front and one on the rear axle, powered by a 78 kWh battery that can be fast-charged to 80% in about 40 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

The Volvo C40 Recharge pure electric will start at an MSRP of $58,750 in the United States before tax credits. This newest addition to the Volvo electric line-up has all the benefits of an SUV but with a lower and sleeker design. This will enable drivers to charge at discounted rates of $0.31/min,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Volvo Cars China and Shanghai International Automobile City Group—a local government supervision authority— will undertake a demonstration program with two Volvo C30 Electric cars in the community of Jiading outside Shanghai. In June 2011, Volvo Car Corporation started the production of the Volvo C30 Electric.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Drivers on the Uber platform in seven European countries can now purchase discounted home EV chargers, as Wallbox – a leading provider of EV charging and energy management solutions worldwide – and Uber expand their partnership across the continent.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The first Audi Q8 e-tron drove off the production line at the Brussels plant yesterday, 14 December, marking the beginning of an era for the new top model in Audi’s electric SUV range. Around 160,000 units of Audi’s first electric model have been delivered since 2018. The highly automated manufacture of electric motors in Györ.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Volvo sold 14,500 EX30s in the first quarter , quickly becoming “one of the best-selling fully electric cars in Europe,” according to Björn Annwall, Volvo Cars’ CCO and deputy CEO. Volvo said owners can either accept the update on their vehicle or take it to the dealership to have it installed free of charge.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2013

"Inductive charging has great potential" according to Volvo following its study into wireless charging of electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that manages all activities related to charging and energy for the Group in Europe, the Elia Group and its start-up re.alto signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Berlin. The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Fastned, the Dutch company building a European network of fast charging stations, has raised €12.3 The proceeds of this issue will be used to further expand the network of fast-charging stations in the Netherlands, Germany other European countries. Fastned has a portfolio of AAA locations where fast charging stations can be realized.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

By Charles Morris What’s it like to drive an electric vehicle? NewMotion, a European charging network owned by oil giant Shell, has released its latest annual survey of EV drivers, and the findings should make interesting reading for anyone thinking of […]. Originally posted on EVANNEX.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

EV Charging Eneco to install 240 charging connections this year at Albert Heijn supermarkets in the Netherlands and Belgium Scania supports […]. However, we do have some stories for our new daily news roundup. See below for some EV stories you might have missed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance car brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, unveiled the Polestar 2 electric fastback in an online reveal from Polestar’s headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. Polestar 2 is the company’s first full electric, higher volume premium car.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2022

Tesla’s open Supercharger program, which allows non-Tesla electric vehicles to charge at the company’s rapid-charging stations, has been expanded to several more countries in Europe. Non-Tesla vehicles can now charge at select Superchargers in Austria, Belgium, Spain, Sweden and the UK via the Tesla app.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. The savings can be higher (24%) in the case of Parisian drivers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 29, 2023

While electric vehicles lose a notable amount of range during winter months, they are still vastly cheaper to run than comparable internal combustion cars. UpShift, a company that provides performance marketing services, initiated a study to compare the running costs of electric and combustion-powered cars during winter.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Reva Electric Car Company (RECC), the manufacturer of the REVA electric car, is building a new assembly plant in Bangalore, India with a capacity of 30,000 units per year, to accommodate the increased production of the REVA and for the planned one new model per year from the end of 2009. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As per local reports, the charging rates for Tesla’s Supercharger network in Germany have seen a notable reduction, effectively making the system more competitive than before. Over the past year, the prices of both Tesla’s electric cars and Supercharger rates have seen a steady increase.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla requests PM Modi to cut import taxes on electric vehicles . Tesla Inc urged the Prime Minister’s Office to cut down the import taxes on electric vehicles before it enters the market. Tesla wants to start selling imported cars in India this year but it says taxes in India is very high among the highest in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2009

Coulomb Technologies, the developer and provider of a family of products and services that provide a plug-in vehicle charging infrastructure ( earlier post ), announced a series of infrastructure wins (two European, one US) in late May and early June. KHLim also has its own energy grid to which the ChargePoint charging stations are connected.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

The project envisions the analysis, testing and deployment of a multi-transport mode network using the current road infrastructure and railways coupled with an electric car charging network of battery switch stations and charge spots powered by renewable energy along with intelligent transport systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Volvo is charging into the electrified vehicle space as part of its quest to achieve a sales target of 50% battery electric vehicles by 2025 and 100% of total vehicle sales being fully electric by 2030. The Volvo XC40 Recharge Twin crossover was the company’s first fully electric vehicle and has been on the market […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

BRUSA drive system for the C30 Electric. Volvo Car Corporation has ordered more than 250 electric drivetrain systems to power the C30 Electric ( earlier post ) from BRUSA Elektronik AG; more may be built, based on market interest. However, Volvo Cars specifies up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) as the car’s practical range.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Volvo has successfully demonstrated the working of a wireless charging for electric cars, as part of a project run in collaboration with Flanders’ Drive knowledge centre based in Flanders, Belgium. Using a prototype Volvo C30 Electric car, the project used inductive charging to recharge the car’s [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

UK based Elektromotive is making headway in the electric vehicle recharging market after appointing ThePluginCompany to install networks of charging stations across Belgium and Luxembourg. Elektromotive has also exported its technology to the Netherlands, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Germany and Sweden.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Given the rapid uptake of electric vehicles, many people are thinking hard about how to make the best use of all that rolling battery power. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Opel and Europcar have agreed to introduce the Opel Ampera extended range electric vehicle ( earlier post ) as a rental car throughout Europe. The goal is to deploy the first vehicles in Europcar rental outlets in Germany in November of this year, followed soon afterwards by Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Late last year, Volvo launched its very first all-electric model in North America. That’s partly due to the weight; the electric XC40 is a whopping 900 pounds heavier than the AWD gasoline version. Like a Tesla, the electric Volvo doesn’t need a button or key to start. liter 4-cylinder engine and optional all-wheel drive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Market introduction and investment plans under the EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) in Denmark will result in upwards of 10pc of the country’s vehicles being all electric or hybrid electric during the coming years.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Last week we told you that the company was heading to Belgium and Luxembourg (see article ), and now it will play a pivotal role in the introduction of an electric vehicle recharging infrastructure in Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Researchers at Purdue University have determined precisely how fluid boils in microchannels, and as a result have created formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers, and other applications. million to Purdue and Delphi Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Inductive battery charging components. A consortium of companies, including Volvo Car Group, Bombardier Transportation and the coachbuilder Van Hool, has successfully completed a 3-year research project studying the possibilities of inductive charging for electric vehicles. Inductive charging has great potential.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2023

By Assaf Oron Welcome to my 9th annual top 10 countries list! This year marks the first time it’s published exclusively on CleanTechnica (the 2021 list was mirrored here last year, see Part 1 and Part 2). It is also the latest I’ve ever published the list — well, that’s with a lengthy kitchen renovation (and me insisting on […]

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2012

million EV charging stations (electric vehicle supply equipment, EVSE) to support them, according to a new report from Pike Research, “ Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment in Europe ”. of a single car company—have supported the Type 3 plug. If the European EV charging equipment market is to reach.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate The First Volvo Compact SUV Coupe EV The 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge was the first electric-only and the smallest SUV from Volvo, falling in-line with the EX90 and XC40 Recharge. The EPA rates the C40 Recharge Twin AWD at 226 all-electric miles (AER) with an efficiency of 39 kWh per 100 miles.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The reveals of the Canoo pickup and Kia EV6 have heads turning and yet another automaker, BMW-owned Mini this time announced plans that it would only produce battery-electric vehicles from 2030. Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner told reporters one of the electric SUVs will be from the Honda brand, while the other will be an Acura.

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