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First Drive: The Fully Electric Volvo C40 Recharge Twin

CleanTechnica EVs

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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Flemish public transport operator orders 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses, upgrades 280 hybrids into e-hybrids

Green Car Congress

De Lijn, the public transport operator (PTO) in the Flemish part of Belgium, is ordering 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses; further, the operator confirmed the upgrade of 280 if its current hybrid buses into e-hybrids. The main reason for depot charging is that De Lijn strictly purchases green electricity only.

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First DAF CF Electric refuse collection truck delivered to ROVA

Green Car Congress

The vehicle features a zero-emission VDL electric powertrain alongside a fully electric VDL refuse collection superstructure. Since the end of 2018, DAF CF Electric 4x2 tractor vehicles have been in operation for inner city distribution at leading Dutch and German transport companies and supermarket chains.

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

Green Car Congress

Cities increasingly find themselves faced with the challenge of reconciling a healthy climate and their inhabitants’ quality-of-life demands with the transport of goods and deliveries in central urban areas. Advancing these ideas consistently, the sales of MAN’s first fully electric-powered production vehicle are now underway with the eTGE.

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