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Book Review: Public Transportation: A Children’s Book by Paul Comfort

Clean Fleet Report

This 2020 children’s book presents a charming and informative history of motorized public transportation, from its origins in the U.S. The quality of light expertly mimics a sunny day and makes the images come alive, and cute, smiling children and happy adults appear in most of the images. Engaging for children and beyond.

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How Safe Are EVs for Fleets?

Blink Charging

Many fleet owners and operators are interested in reducing operational and maintenance costs with electric vehicles (EVs), but they worry about vehicle safety. As for vehicle recalls, Kelley Blue Book offers a tracking webpage , and National Highway Safety Administration offers a vehicle search by Vehicle Identification Number (VIN).

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Van Hool introduces new A range of electric buses; battery-electric, fuel cell (hydrogen) and trolley

Green Car Congress

Van Hool is ready to provide a response to the ever-growing demand from public transport companies that are focusing on ‘greening’ their fleets. Even before the official announcement of the new A range Van Hool had 13 orders on its books, for a total of 162 buses. The large rear window lets in plenty of natural light.

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Editorial: Growing old U.S. fleet complicates emissions objectives

Baua Electric

Unsurprisingly, a key driving force of the rise used to be the provision constraints lingering from the COVID-19 pandemic, which curtailed manufacturing and helped book customers of their current automobiles or despatched would-be new-vehicle patrons into the used-vehicle marketplace, S&P mentioned. reached a file 12.5

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Volkswagen’s MOIA introduces electric ridesharing car for up to 6 passengers; 300km range

Green Car Congress

The goal is to launch the service in Hamburg with 200 electric shuttle vehicles in 2018 and extend the fleet in 2019. MOIA is currently testing the service in Hannover using a fleet of Volkswagen Multivan T6 vehicles. In addition to the car, the system includes a customer app which passengers use to book and pay for a MOIA.

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Alcoa to roll out lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe, offering increased fuel efficiency, payload

Green Car Congress

Alcoa, the inventor and global leader of forged aluminum wheels, will roll out its lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe to help fleets increase payload and fuel efficiency. Fleets worldwide are turning to lighter weight aluminum wheels versus steel wheels to help increase payload, improve fuel efficiency and meet emissions regulations.

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Omega Seiki partners Charzer to deploy 30k cargo vehicles, 20k EV charging stations in India

Electric Vehicles India

With Charzer, fleet owners can save up to 46% of their expenses and scale their fleet 10 times faster. Drivers can save up to 55 hours of redundant travel per month and earn 40% more income due to increased fleet uptime.”. Bookings will begin by this month-end and deliveries will be done in the festive season.

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