Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2021

Alpiq, EW Höfe and SOCAR Energy Switzerland are looking into the feasibility of installing an electrolysis facility with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Freienbach, Switzerland. The plan is to produce green hydrogen exclusively using electricity from renewable sources direct from the grid in Freienbach.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

Volvo Trucks has signed a letter of intent to sell 1,000 electric trucks between now and 2030 to Holcim, one of the world’s largest building solution providers. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks; the first 130 trucks will be delivered in 2023 and 2024.

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

million electric vehicles have been sold worldwide, and that number is set to grow due to the phasing-out of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from as soon as 2025 (Norway), with the UK targeting 2030 and the 27 EU member states EU aiming for 2035. More than 6.5

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2022

billion concept for underground cargo tubes full of automated delivery carts whisking goods between cities and logistics centers across Switzerland at 30 kilometers per hour. In 2016, we wrote about Cargo Sous Terrain , a (then) $3.4 The goods are transported on pallets or in modified containers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In Switzerland, Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 2 megawatt (MW) containerized Proton PEM electrolyzer, as part of a 30 MW framework agreement with Hydrospider AG, an affiliated company of H2 Energy. wide network of hydrogen stations and corresponding supply chain in Switzerland.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The best selling automobile in Switzerland is now the Tesla Model Y. That’s not just electric cars, and it’s not just one month — it’s for the first 9 months of 2022.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2022

Potential customers in Switzerland who wish to try out a German-made Tesla Model Y now have the opportunity to take one of the European-made all-electric crossovers for a spin. As per a recent post on LinkedIn, Tesla is offering test drives for its Germany-made Model Y in Cham, Zug, Switzerland. .

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InsideEVs

JULY 18, 2021

Switzerland has seen its EV adoption rate soar in the last few years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

Nestlé Switzerland and Renault Trucks (part of the Volvo Group) recently introduced an experimental all-electric refrigerated truck—nicknamed the e-Truck—that combines an all-electric 13t Renault Midlum developed by Renault Trucks with a refrigerated body that is also entirely powered by electricity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Norwegian Postal Service has ordered 29 electric trucks from Volvo, making the order one of the largest ever for Volvo Trucks in Europe. The Norwegian Postal Service has previously placed an order with Volvo for 13 biogas-fueled and three electric trucks. Production of the Volvo VNR Electric for North America started in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. In 2021 the company took orders, including letters of intent to buy, for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. An increasing number of heavy all-electric trucks are now running in commercial traffic.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Treffen in Ticino, Switzerland, Volkswagen presented the ID. The fully electric concept car with all-wheel drive system is based on the ID.4 The roof carrier with additional LED lights and the completely closed aluminum underbody also equip the fully electric all-wheel drive vehicle for excursions away from paved roads.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

Tesla has expanded its strategic relationship with Sixt Leasing to include Switzerland as well as Germany. Electric vehicles are exempt from annual road tax (CHF 40, US$45 per month) in certain cantons including Zurich, Geneva and Ticino.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MM Automobile Schweiz AG and Switzerland’s largest electricity provider Alpiq Holding AG (Alpiq) through which the three parties will work together to promote the popularization of the new-generation electric vehicle i-MiEV in Switzerland.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Switzerland's Designwerk has unveiled a Megawatt Charging System that can charge an electric truck 6 times faster than a 350 kW fast charger.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With the energy situation in Europe right now, countries are looking for ways to cut energy use and save their energy supplies for when they really need it. Ironically, this fossil-derived energy challenge has led to the Swiss government encouraging EV drivers to use their cars less — just for urgent needs like going to […].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Leclanché SA has developed a modular, all-in-one, high-performance battery system optimized for powering new and retrofit hybrid and fully electric commercial vehicles. The company’s 60 Ah cells and M2 modules are manufactured by Leclanché in Germany and Switzerland, respectively. It is also rated to ingress protection level IP65.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million in 2021 Targeted Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deploy five XCIENT Fuel Cell electric trucks in California. Last year, Hyundai Motor also announced its NorCal Zero project, also known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Fuel Cell Electric Trucks. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Renault Trucks has delivered the first of twenty electric 26-tonne Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. We are proud to see our pioneering work with electric trucks, which began several years ago now, finally paying off. We are the first company in Switzerland and even Europe to use these environmentally friendly trucks for beverage transport.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Under some of our recent EV sales reports, readers requested charts and stats for automotive group sales, not just sales by model or even brand. It was even pointed out that this is the only comparison many people in the industry actually care about. Those seem like good points, so here’s an update on Sweden […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

For a long time, Norway was the ultimate trendsetter when it came to the future of electric vehicle adoption. Known for exquisite chocolates, fine watches, secretive banks, and Roger Federer — Switzerland is now making some waves on the EV scene. It turns out that last year, an electric car sold […].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

QUANTRON has unveiled its new 12m electric bus called CIZARIS. The new bus model in the Augsburg-based company’s bus portfolio will be launched as an all-electric version (CIZARIS 12 EV), followed in 2023 by a fuel cell drive (CIZARIS 12 H) that uses a largely identical powertrain.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2018

Chinese electric-car maker Byton announced it's raised $500 million in new funding. The world's largest electric-car rally kicks off in Switzerland. New controversy sets in surrounding a Tesla Autopilot add-on that defeats baked-in safety. And we ask what a "green car" means to readers. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

The funding is available for battery, fuel cell and (overhead line) hybrid electric vehicles, corresponding to refueling/charging infrastructure and related feasibility studies. Launched in 2020 by Hyundai Motor, XCIENT Fuel Cell is the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen electric heavy-duty truck. BMDV will have a budget of €1.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

PostAuto Schweiz AG has become the first company in Switzerland to deploy fuel-cell technology for public road transport. With the electric power from this pack, the new Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid is able to run for a number of kilometers on battery power alone.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2018

Undeterred by major automakers that build electric cars by the millions, tinkerers and apostles aren't finished coming up with new ideas on their own.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Hyundai shipped a total of 46 units of XCIENT Fuel Cell to Switzerland last year. Hyundai will ship another 140 units of the new XCIENT Fuel Cell towards Switzerland by the end of this year as part of its plan to roll out 1,600 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks in Europe by 2025.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

As cities look to reduce air pollution, some are equipping their police forces with electric cars. The Hyundai Kona Electric is proving to be a popular choice, in Europe at least. Police forces in Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom currently use Kona Electric patrol cars, Hyundai said earlier this month in a press release.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

The hydrogen Solaris buses feature an electric traction motor with 160 kW output in the 12-meter model and 240 kW in the articulated version. Moreover, the ordered vehicles will be equipped with Solaris High Power batteries, providing additional electric energy storage.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Three men from Switzerland have formed the Peak Evolution Team with the goal of conquering the summit of Ojos del Salado in Chile – the world’s highest active volcano – in a solar electric truck, with the help of Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Swiss solar industry leader Helion is renewing its commercial vehicle fleet and has converted it to all-electric vehicles. Buzz Cargo to around 100 Helion technicians – known as Helionauts – took place near the town of Solothurn in Switzerland on Monday morning. The world’s largest handover of ID.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Through the project, also known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Fuel Cell Electric Truck, Hyundai Motor will deploy 30 Class 8 6x4 XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty tractors at the Port of Oakland, Calif., At the 2022 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, Hyundai Motor will share the progress of the NorCAL ZERO Project.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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Electrek

JANUARY 31, 2023

A Volvo FH Electric 40-ton semi-trailer truck made a 3,000 km (1,864-mile) trip between Zurich, Switzerland, and Valencia, Spain – the longest distance traveled by a commercial electric truck so far. more… The post A Volvo FH Electric semi just made a 3,000 km trip across Europe appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2019

To begin the joint venture’s operations, Hyundai Motor will deliver 1,600 fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks to Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility from 2019 through 2025. The joint entity will further expand its market presence to other European countries beyond Switzerland.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

Irizar has signed a contract for 15 zero emissions electric buses and charging infrastructure for Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Irizar was awarded the supply contract for the first line of electric buses for the city of Schaffhausen by public tender. —Hector Olabegogeaskoetxea, Manager Director of Irizar e-mobility.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Micro Mobility Solutions has unveiled a smaller version of the Microlino, called the Microlino Lite, which is a second version of its adorably tiny electric city car. as a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) as soon as the end of this year. 7 Tourer electric estate car for Europe What are your thoughts? Volkswagen unveils ID.7

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