Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The BMW Group presented the first BMW iX5 Hydrogen vehicles in a pilot fleet that will go into service this year. The fleet of less than 100 vehicles will then be employed internationally for demonstration and trial purposes for various target groups.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

AKASOL will supply battery systems for more than 40 Coradia iLint hydrogen trains ( earlier post ), which have been ordered from Alstom by the Lower Saxony Transit Authority and the Rhine/Main Regional Transport Association. Each Coradia iLint train is equipped with two high-performance battery systems with a total capacity of 220 kWh.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We are very interested in importing climate-friendly hydrogen derivatives and fuels. The demand is enormous—especially in the fields of aviation and shipping, but also to decarbonize existing vehicle fleets. —Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Alstom held a world premiere event on Sunday celebrating its Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel cell train ( earlier post ) rolling into service in Lower Saxony, Germany. The new trains will be fueled at a mobile hydrogen filling station. The Coradia iLint heralds a new era in emission-free rail transport.

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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”. By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. In a new working paper, Prof. A parametric analysis by Barter et al.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Lion 6 Electric Truck These standards will avoid 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and provide $13 billion “in annualized net benefits to society,” encompassing public health, climate protection, and cost savings for vehicle owners and operators, according to the EPA.

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