Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

the largest private aviation company in the world, and FlightSafety International, a leader in professional aviation training, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lilium, makers of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet ( earlier post ), for a proposed strategic partnership. NetJets Inc.,

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MARCH 5, 2022

Austrian bus company Österreichische Postbus AG (ÖBB Postbus) has signed another framework agreement with Solaris for the delivery of up to 106 battery-electric and hydrogen buses that would be deployed throughout Austria. The models offered include Urbino 9 LE electric and Urbino 12 hydrogen buses.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Roy Hill , the largest single iron ore mine in Australia, has purchased Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, the world’s first 100% battery-electric, heavy-haul locomotive ( earlier post ) for the region and the mining industry. —Gerhard Veldsman, CEO of Roy Hill. It is an upgrade from the 2.4-MWh Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Union Pacific Railroad plans to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for testing in yard operations. The combined purchases and upgrades to yard infrastructure are expected to exceed $100 million, representing the largest investment in battery-electric technology by a US Class I railroad.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

announced that from 2024 through 2030, Honda will purchase 123 GWh of batteries for pure electric vehicles in China from CATL. With the scale-up of the production and sale of Honda’s pure electric vehicle brand e:N, the two companies agree to further strengthen their partnership. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

million in its fleet of electric school buses with the Québec company Lion, thus becoming, with a total of 31 vehicles, the largest private operator of electric school buses in North America to date. Transdev’s ambition is to electrify 100% of its fleet of electric school buses parked in its Quebec depots by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Merchants Fleet will become a key commercial customer of the all-new Ram ProMaster electric van (EV) that debuts later this year. The fleet management company entered an agreement with Stellantis calling for the purchase of 12,500 Ram ProMaster EVs over the next several years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) and Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY) a leading US foodservice distribution company, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to deliver up to nearly 800 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors by 2026. After well over one million-miles (1.6 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Lion Electric Company, a manufacturer of all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, received a purchase order from Groupe Autocar Jeannois for 35 zero-emission LionC school buses, to be delivered over the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2023

will purchase 13 Nikola zero-emission Class 8 trucks as the transportation company focuses on its sustainability efforts and reducing the intensity of its carbon emissions. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the company took delivery of its first company-owned Class 8 electric vehicle. Hunt Transport Services Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The purchase order is conditional upon the satisfactory grant of non-repayable contributions to STC under Infrastructure Canada’s Zero-Emission Transit Fund (ZETF), for which STC has filed a formal application. If confirmed, this purchase order would allow STC to become the largest operator of electric school buses in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

signed a contract for the delivery of six electric buses. Newly commissioned Urbino 12 electric buses will start the electrification of the city’s public transport. Having won the tender, Solaris will produce six low-floor 12-meter electric buses for the operator MZK Malbork. Another 500 battery buses are being manufactured.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

DHL Express announced a partnership with Fiat Professional, purchasing the first 100 units of Fiat’s new E-Ducato, introduced to the public on Earth Day. Due to the high customer demand for international Express deliveries the company expects its European last-mile fleet growing to approximately 20,000 vans by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 20MW alkaline water electrolyzer from Ovako , a leading European manufacturer of engineering steel. The purchase order has a contract value of approximately €11 million with equipment delivery in late 2022. —Jon André Løkke, CEO at Nel.

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Electric Cars Report

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Californian high-tech advanced mobility company Canoo and Zeeba, a growing national fleet leasing provider, have signed an agreement for Zeeba to purchase 5,450 American made electric vehicles, with an initial binding commitment of 3,000 units through 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Workhorse Group has received a purchase order for 6,320 C-Series all-electric delivery vehicles from Pride Group Enterprises, a company with businesses in transportation equipment retail, wholesale, rental, leasing and logistics. Initial delivery of the vehicles may begin by July 2021 and will run through 2026.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Porsche Digital has spun off its own company in the field of e-mobility, thereby expanding its digital business portfolio. &Charge” offers a digital platform through which users can obtain credit for their online purchases for electric mobility. &Charge” has been a climate-neutral company since its foundation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rio Tinto will purchase four 7MWh FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives ( earlier post ) from Wabtec Corporation for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia as part of the company’s strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) (Maryland) Board of Education approved a contract on Tuesday evening with Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey electric fleet solutions, to convert the MCPS school bus fleet to all-electric, starting with 326 school buses over the next four years.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Irvine, California-based electric vehicle startup Rivian announced that it will enable other companies to purchase its custom-designed Rivian Commercial Van as an initial period of making them exclusively for Amazon concludes.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Rental car company Hertz recently announced plans to slow down its electrification strategy by selling off some electric vehicles (EVs), and now the company has halted its plans to purchase EVs from the Polestar. The post Hertz is pausing purchases from Polestar as it shifts away from EVs appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2021

Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (EMT), the largest public transport operator in Spain and the second largest in Europe, recently awarded the tender for the acquisition of 520 new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well for the purchase of 50 new electric buses. Electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Audi of America is offering qualified customers who purchase or lease a 2021 Audi e-tron or e-tron Sportback a subscription to Arcadia at no additional charge for up to five years. The company has set itself the goal of reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Deepsea mining company TMC The Metals Company ( earlier post ) announced a strategic partnership with Low Carbon Royalties Inc. TMC and LCR have agreed to a purchase and sale agreementwhereby LCR has acquired a 2.0% to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

FedEx Express Canada welcomed its first 50 BrightDrop Zevo 600 electric delivery vehicles at an event in Toronto. BrightDrop Zevo 600 in Toronto This initial fleet of 50 electric vehicles (EVs) will service Toronto, Montreal, and Surrey. BrightDrop is manufacturing the Zevo 600s at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2022

Germany is awarding some €600 million to transport companies for the purchase of climate friendly buses. Around 1,700 buses will be procured by the transport companies with this tranche of funding from the new “Directive on the Promotion of Alternative Drives of Buses in Passenger Transport”.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Canadian National Railway Company (CN) announced the purchase of Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric freight locomotive, the first to join its 19,500-mile rail network. more… The post CN purchases battery electric freight locomotive from Wabtec to support sustainability goals appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

Nikola Corporation announced a collaboration with Saia LTL Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) company, to accelerate the implementation of heavy-duty electric transportation trucks.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2024

Tesla and a few other companies recently announced the launch of the Electro Mobility Association (EMA) to promote the production and purchase of electric vehicles in Mexico. BYD is also considering Mexico for the site of its new electric vehicle plant. By 2035, 100% of the vehicles sold in Mexico should be electric.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Self Financial, a fintech company, has compared the running costs of electric and non-electric vehicles in each state. Across the US the average annual cost of running an electric vehicle is $2,721.96, while gasoline vehicles cost an average of $3,355.90 per year to run—a difference of $633.94

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Orange EV has expanded its yard truck rental program to offer the largest electric spotter rental fleet across the United States. These all-electric rentals are now available in 48 states, providing increased uptime and reduced costs. Renting is also a great way to try before you buy to experience the Orange EV difference.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2021

There are numerous factors to consider when one is looking to purchase an electric car. There’s the specs, the range, and the company that is building the vehicle. This means that the more expensive fuel becomes, the more buyers would likely be open to an electric car. . Credit:CarGurus.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2023

The Volkswagen Group is investing around €1 billion in a new development, innovation, and procurement center for fully connected intelligent electric vehicles in the southern Chinese city of Hefei. The new company, with the project name ‘100%TechCo’, combines vehicles and components R&D teams with purchasing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Porsche has increased its stake in technology and sports car company Rimac Automobili to 15.5%. In June 2018, the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer purchased a 10% stake in Rimac. The Croatian company develops and produces electromobility components and also produces electrically powered super sports cars in-house.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Volvo Cars and Geely Auto have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration that will maximize the strengths of the Swedish and Chinese automotive groups, delivering synergies in powertrains, sharing of electric vehicle architecture, joint procurement, autonomous drive technologies and aftersales.

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