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Toyota Motor Europe strengthens strategic alliance with CaetanoBus and Finlog in fuel cell bus business

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Toyota Caetano Portugal (TCAP), the joint venture of Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Salvador Caetano, strengthened its strategic alliance with CaetanoBus and Finlog by becoming the direct shareholder of the two Portuguese companies. The ordered H2.City

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1-year customer field trials of FUSO electric Canter in Portugal show 64% lower costs, 37% reduction in CO2 given local power mix

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Daimler has concluded customer field trials with eight pre-production Fuso Canter E-Cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) in Portugal. FUSO developed the battery-powered and locally emission-free Canter E-Cell at the Daimler Trucks Center of Competence for Hybrid Technology. That time is cut to just one hour on a quick charging system.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance, CEA and FSI to Form Joint Venture to Develop and Manufacture Batteries for Electric Vehicles

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In order to complete the financing of the project, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering a loan of up to 50% of the €280 million (US$416 million) debt financing. The Renault-Nissan Alliance will use its European battery plants in France, the UK and Portugal to supply electric vehicles built around Europe and Turkey.

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Nissan to make electic car batteries at Sunderland plant

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Ltd along with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, today announced together with the governments of the United Kingdom and Portugal their plans to build two plants for the production of its advanced lithium-ion batteries in Europe. The introduction of EV will allow the reduction of CO2 emissions and fossil fuel energy dependence on the exterior.

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China’s new energy buses are re-exported to Europe

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Zhongtong’s new N series pure electric buses are exported to the second largest city in Portugal. Recently, Zhongtong Bus’s first batch of six pure electric new N-series buses was officially delivered to Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, and officially opened for operation locally.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Therefore, electrifying them is critical to reducing emissions. Now nominally retired and living in Portugal, he remains active in the infrastructure space as a consultant, and closely follows the development of the EV charging ecosystem. Furthermore, the case for electric trucks and buses would seem to be an easy one to make.

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Nissan signs electric car alliance with Europcar

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Electric vehicles will be rolled out in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and will be subsequently extended to other countries, as part of the alliance. The Renault-Nissan Alliance will introduce zero-emission vehicles in the United States and Japan starting from 2010.

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