Green Cars News

APRIL 7, 2010

The Spanish government has pledged €590 million to promote and develop a market for electric cars. The fund includes incentives for electric car buyers of a 20 per cent subsidy up to the value of €6,000. Tags: Electric cars electricity fund grant production Spain subsidy.

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MAY 10, 2011

The Government of Spain is aiming to stimulate the electric vehicle market by approving a number of incentives. Electric cars will be subsidised for up to 25 per cent of the purchase price before tax; [.]. Among the efforts announces are direct subsidies for the purchase of the vehicles with a budget of €72million for 2011.

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MAY 9, 2009

Having already established an electric vehicle testing programme in Austria, Think will continue its European expansion in Spain where it will deliver 550 City electric vehicles. According to Richard Canny, CEO of Think, Spain is an important market. NK electric vehicle testing programme Spain Think.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Spain-based battery manufacturer Cegasa Group has started developing its first prototypes of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. Cegasa has been manufacturing batteries for more than 75 years. Cegasa is currently making progress in the research and development stage of its first Li-ion prototypes.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Spain has decided to extend its version of the scrappage scheme, to continue support for car industry. Under the Spanish system, motorists can buy a new or used car up to five years old by scrapping a [.]. Tags: Green credentials C02 car buying extend fund incentive scheme scrappage Spain.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

We almost can’t believe this next story, but Renault is giving a free Twizy with every Laguna or Espace model it sells in Spain. The newly-launched electric quadricycle is a tasty little tempter designed to help boost vehicle sales in Spain’s flagging car market.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Green Piece Column Sometimes it can be debated as to whether the glass is half full or half empty. However, only the eternal optimist could put a positive spin on Spain’s electric car sales results. Admittedly Spain has managed to sell 16 times as many electric cars as last year [.].

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Spainhas been slow to embrace electric cars – but that may all change thanks to a new Smart Community System Demonstration Project, led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corporation and Hitachi.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Further proof, if it were needed, that green cars are a truly global phenomenon, came when engineers in Bucaramanga presented Columbia’s first electric car to a proud audience last weekend. The first model in the line is the Lexion, a three-wheel car that uses electricity or petroleum.

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JUNE 27, 2013

A Spanish seaside resort near Cadiz has become the home of the first plant in the world to convert sewage into algae fuel. The new EU-backed algae biofuel demonstration project, called All-Gas, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using wastewater to cultivate algae, from which oil can be extr[.]. Biofuels'

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Nissan has named its ‘gamer to racer’, appointed to the job of official test and development driver of the ZEOD RC electric race car programme. Lucas Ordóñez, a 28 year old from Spain won the the inaugural Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition in 2008 and has gone on to become one of the sta[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

UK-based Axon Automotive, a spin-off from Cranfield University, previewed a pre-production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of its lightweight city car at the Milton Keynes Science Festival. The Axon gasoline-powered city car uses existing engine technology and carbon fibre material advances to offer 100 mpg UK (83.3

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JANUARY 15, 2011

The electric car is now available in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It may have taken its time to reach the marketplace, but the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is now firmly making its mark across Europe.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Spanish car maker SEAT is the latest to be bitten by the electrification bug as it announces plans for a new battery electric car and a plug-in hybrid. Unveiling a prototype Altea XL Electric Ecomotive, the firm plans to be the first to design, develop and manufacture an electric car in Spain.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2010

Where we stand: August 2010 Spain may not be world renowned for its car manufacturing industry but in SEAT it boasts a brand that is becoming increasingly significant as more car buyers look towards environmental solutions. Tags: SEAT diesel ecomotive green car IBE concept Manufacturer Spotlight.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The Japanese Mitsubishi i-MiEV model has already proven a hit on home soil – and now bookings are being taken for the European version of the car, under the Peugeot brand. Known as the Peugeot i0n, pre-bookings of the vehicle are open on the websites of Peugeot Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

If this next car looks familiar, then you’d be right-SEAT has now revealed its take on the Volkswagen Up! All three cars won’t launch in the UK until next year, but the SEAT Mii model will be available in its home market of Spain before the end [.]. platform, which has already spawn the Skoda Citigo.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2011

Honda is to run a demonstration programmed for its EV-neo electric scooter in Barcelona in conjunction with the city’s council. The programme launches next month and will see 18 of the new battery-powered scooters loaned to the Spanish city’s council for a period of one year. The scooter operates using a 2.8kw motor and a [.].

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Electric buses may soon become more commonplace in Spain after Opbrid Transporte Sostenible SL introduced the Busbaar in the country – an overhead, pantograph-based fast charging station. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news electric bus recharging electric buses hybrid buses Opbrid Opbrid Busbaar.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

A Spanish electric car programme has been dubbed a failure after just sixteen electric cars sold in the country through first half of 2010. Tags: Electric cars grant hybrids Spain.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2010

The company’s Valencia plant in Spain will build two advanced technology derivatives of the new Ford C-MAX multi-activity model, which will be launched in 2013: a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and a full hybrid electric vehicle. Ford will soon join the hybrid rush in Europe as it lines up two new vehicles for the market. According [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

Last week we told you how Think had expanded to Spain and now the Norwegian company has made several additional announcements at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Norway. It means that the car can now be registered in each European member state without the need for additional tests or approval. NK Electric Vehicle Symposium Spain Th!nk

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Green Cars News

MARCH 1, 2010

Tags: Green cars Latest news CNG buses CNG taxis CNG vehicles compressed natural gas Madrid Madrid diesel ban Spain.

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MAY 23, 2009

Yesterday we told you how the scrappage scheme proposals in the USA are coming under fire and today it is the turn of Spain’s scheme to face criticism. The Ecologistas en Accion , one of the country’s most important green groups, is claiming that the scrappage scheme is bad business.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 8, 2017

Expected to be revealed in Spain next month, this is the car that will take the fight to Audi has revealed details of its upcoming flagship A8 saloon.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

More news from Spain this morning as Queen Sophia tries out an electric car, the Peugeot iON. According to The Telegraph this morning, the Spanish Queen tried out the electric model as the country’s government tries to promote a flagging scheme which gives electric car buyers a grant towards their purchase (see story).

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Green Cars News

MARCH 14, 2014

Owners of Nissan’s first fully electric car – the famous LEAF – are fast approaching the one billion kilometres driven mark. To celebrate the landmark figure, Nissan has created a series of animated stories, starting with Roberto San Jose, the first taxi driver in Spain to buy one of the fully ele[.]. Electric cars Nissan'

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Residents in the Spanish city of Ataun are set to benefit from a new carbon-free car-sharing scheme courtesy of Think. The Scandinavian electric vehicle maker along with its distribution partner in Spain, Going Green has teamed with a consortium in the Basque Country to provide 15 electric Think city cars to locals in the city [.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Having signed memorandums of understanding to promote the development of electric mobility in numerous countries and major cities around the world, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has now secured arguably its most high profile agreement yet – with the city of Barcelona, Spain.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Barcelona, in Spain, is a city that seems to have it all: from beautiful architecture to the world’s best football team. And now it can add yet more electric vehicle production to that list. That’s because Barcelona has been chosen by Nissan to assemble the gearbox for both the Nissan LEAF and the Nissan eNV200 [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Mitsubishi is considering building a new plant to produce electric car models in Spain, according to news agency, AFP. Tags: Mitsubishi Electric cars models new plant Spain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

Clean cars from a clean factory and an attitude to the environment that aims to change the way of people’s thinking. SEAT in Spain, with an 8MW solar array, generates 56% of its own power. Volkswagen hosted Green Car Congress for the inauguration of the solar park. Volkswagen sustainability targets.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Unveiled in Spain and on display at the Mobile World Congress Peugeot hopes to show off its vision of the future, with the reveal of the Instinct.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Having already announced that its Zoe ZE Concept will be manufactured in Flins, France (see article ) and that it’s Twizy ZE Concept will call Vallodolid in Spain its home (see article ), Renault has now revealed its plans for the future electric, zero-emission version of its Kangoo Express LCV.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2011

European car leasing firm, Athlon Car Lease has signed an agreement with Tesla Motors to make the firm’s electric models available to businesses across Europe.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Fisker’s European expansion continues apace with the news that car dealer group Guarnieri will exclusively import and market all Fisker vehicles in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

The world’s first plant to convert sewage wastewater into algae biofuel, based in Chiclana in Southern Spain, has successfully grown its first crop. The EU-backed All-gas project-the first project of its kind-reports that its first crop is showing high energy potential, with a methane production[.]. Biofuels'

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