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This will include infrastructure development and vehicle fleets to accelerate the expansion of hydrogen mobility for both light- and heavy-duty vehicles. CaetanoBus, part of Toyota Caetano Portugal and Mitsui & Co, is a bus and chassis manufacturer in Portugal. CaetanoBus has been focusing on electric mobility since 1980.
FUSO also announced the company’s first US commercial partner for the eCanter: UPS will place three of the new electric trucks into its fleet. The FUSO eCanter benefits from extensive experience of customer trials conducted in Portugal and Germany with the pre-series vehicles between 2014 and 2017. Seven-Eleven Co.,
Europe’s leading land transport provider is thus strengthening its sustainability strategy and further expanding the use of electric vehicles in its mixed fleets. With these latest vehicles, DB Schenker will become FUSO’s largest electric fleet customer with a total of 41 eCanter vehicles in daily operations.
Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. This is what the Project 2012 is all about.
During the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, nine public transit buses used a traffic management system developed by Volkswagen scientists in the United States and Germany, powered by a D-Wave quantum computer, to calculate the fastest travel routes individually and in near-real time. Earlier post.).
LeasePlan, a Dutch financial institution specializing in fleet management, and Nissan signed an agreement to cooperate in a European-wide project to launch the electric Nissan LEAF in 2011. The car will be mass-marketed globally from 2012 onwards. LeasePlan operates a fleet of more than 1.3 million vehicles globally.
Among other things, the government is to promote vehicle sales in rural areas, update vehicle fleets in urban areas, and strengthen construction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Completing the picture on the supply side is the current turmoil in logistics markets across the world. This is mainly due to supply disruptions.
The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
If today’s demand for EVs is projected to 2050, the lithium requirements of the US EV market alone in 2050 would require triple the amount of lithium currently produced for the entire global market. The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. Riofrancos et al.
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. The organization has the largest electric fleet in the country, with more than 3,000 electric delivery vehicles. Australia Post is a government business enterprise providing postal services in Australia.
The companies will now explore a strong partnership to provide partner drivers on the Uber App with affordable electric vehicles in European markets, notably in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. It follows a successful pilot between Nissan and Uber in the UK.
in April compared to the same month last year, according to figures from the ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.Over the first four months of 2010 the market expanded by 4.8% By contrast, markets expanded in France (+1.9%), the UK (+11.5%), Belgium (+20.3%) and Spain (+39.3%). in Portugal. in Portugal.
Iberdrola and bp intend to form a strategic collaboration to expand fast EV public charging infrastructure significantly as well as to develop large-scale green hydrogen production hubs in Spain, Portugal and the UK. Accelerating EV fast charging. Integrated large scale green hydrogen production.
tons already is in costumer operations in Japan and the US and also in major European markets such as Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal. The all-electric FUSO eCanter light-duty truck with an output of 129 kW and a payload up to 3.5 Currently more than 100 vehicles are in customer hands around the globe.
26 March 2025 Read next Portugal packs a punch in the European EV market 25 March 2025 Read next Which EV started 2025 on top in the Netherlands? Power highlights the potential impact on the new and used-car markets in the US. Fleet sales are projected to decline by 4.7% The latest forecast from J.D. from a year ago.
tonnes) to a further major market following the market launches in New York, Tokyo and Berlin. DPD, Wincanton and Hovis are initially starting with a total of nine FUSO eCanter vehicles in their fleets. The company plans to use five FUSO eCanter trucks in its fleet. It employs around 3200 people in Great Britain.
It shows that average CO 2 emissions from the new car fleet in the EU fell by 2.6 % between 2011 and 2012. Registrations of new cars fell furthest in 2012 in Greece (-41%), Portugal (-38%) and Cyprus (-25%), while at the other end of the scale new cars increased by more than 12% in in Estonia and Hungary.
Thus, in 2013 the European Union fleet already collectively met its legal target for 2015. There were 24,000 electric vehicles registered in 2013, which is a small fraction of the fleet but which represents a 71 % increase on 2012 numbers. Around 31,000 plug-in hybrid cars were registered in 2013.
The taxi and ride-hailing markets are best positioned to go fully electric first. Due to the EU’s CO 2 targets, the European EV market will reach a 10% market share in 2021. In Paris, the fleet of ride-hailing drivers tripled in the past four year, from around 10,000 in 2016 to about 30,000 today.
In just three years, between January 2008 and January 2011, the operational fleet grew from 1,737 high-speed trainsets worldwide to 2,517. Two-thirds of this fleet is found in just five countries: France, China, Japan, Germany, and Spain. By 2014, the global fleet is expected to total more than 3,700 units.
The market introduction of the Opel Ampera (the European cousin of the Chevy Volt) is due by the end of 2011. The Opel Ampera will then be rolled out throughout France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom from the beginning of 2012. —Opel/Vauxhall Vice President Sales, Marketing & Aftersales Europe, Alain Visser.
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has started production of the all‑electric light-duty truck Fuso eCanter in Tramagal, Portugal. The vehicles coming from Tramagal, Portugal will be handed over to customers within Europe and the US within the next month. Earlier post.) Fuso is a brand of Daimler Trucks Asia.
Manufacturers will have to reduce emissions of their fleet significantly to meet the upcoming 2020 and 2021 targets. Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018. The market share of gasoline vehicles also increased, constituting 3.6% g CO 2 /km. g CO 2 /km).
The roadmap includes market-by-market deployment of KINTO-branded services across Europe. KINTO UK already exists since mid-last year, after the business acquired Inchcape Fleet Solutions (IFS). —Tom Fux. Spain); KINTO Italia SpA (Italy); KINTO Deutschland GmbH (Germany); and KINTO France SAS (France).
As part of its Easy Mobility strategy, SEAT’s objective is to build its product and service portfolio by presenting new solutions to the market in the framework of urban mobility. —SEAT Product Marketing director Lucas Casasnovas.
will place a particular emphasis on expanding its wind business in Europe and in other selected target markets. We are convinced that it’s necessary to respond to dramatically altered global energy markets, technical innovation, and more diverse customer expectations with a bold new beginning. For this purpose E.ON billion (US$0.62
The eCanter is produced in Kawasaki, Japan and in Tramagal, Portugal. The test fleet comprises 38 vehicles in a variety of applications including regional and local distribution, food distribution and parcel delivery. Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2.
The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. European automakers are striving to comply with EU CO 2 norms (average fleet emissions less than 130 g/km by 2015) to avoid penalties. (As
The market penetration of electric cars remained slow in 2019. Diesel vehicles continue to make up the vast majority of the new van fleet, constituting 94% of registrations in 2019. The market share of gasoline vans was 3.4%, which is slightly less than in 2018. g CO 2 /km), Portugal (138.1 g CO 2 /km—0.5
Stellantis recently announced its plans to produce electric commercial vans in Portugal. The OEM’s CEO Carlos Tavares stated that Stellantis’ Mangualde Production Center in Portugal will produce battery electric light commercial vehicles (LCV). “We Production at the Mangualde plant is anticipated to begin in early 2025.
For the study, the authors modeled different supply chains for green hydrogen and compared possible import routes, such as those from Portugal, Canada, Tunisia and Australia. —Marc Grünewald, Head of Business Development, Power and New Energies at MAN Energy Solutions. —Marc Grünewald.
Greatly increasing the penetration of electric cars into the personal vehicle fleet is a central feature of climate mitigation policies at local, state, and federal levels, says corresponding author MIT associate professor of energy studies Jessika Trancik. Ramakrishnan, S., Needell, Z.A.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has formed a partnership with the Energy Market Authority (EMA), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore to explore the development of Zero Emission Vehicles Program. Lawrence Wong, Chief Executive, EMA.
In addition, the MEB will be the key tool for meeting demanding fleet targets first in Europe and China and later in the US. In addition, vehicle production plants throughout the world such as those at Pamplona in Spain, Palmela in Portugal and Bratislava in Slovakia are preparing for the production of further MQB vehicles.
Nissan will introduce EVs in the United States in 2010 and will mass market EVs globally two years later. Through physical infrastructure deployments and streamlined installation processes, the Tucson region will be an attractive launch market not just for Nissan’s electric vehicle, but all grid-connected vehicles.” Earlier post.).
In conjunction with these efforts, Nissan has committed to make available a supply of electric vehicles to the Region’s public and private fleets in 2010, the year Nissan’s electric vehicle will be ready for the commercial market. Earlier post.).
The countries with the highest proportions of diesel sales included Ireland (65 %) and Portugal (61 %), Italy (56 %). However the share of these categories in the new fleet remains low (1.5 %). The biggest decrease of diesel cars was registered in Greece and Luxemburg (- 19 and – 17 percentage points).
The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additional countries will become available before the end of 2011 and into 2012.
UOP also has licensed plants in Italy and Portugal to use the EcoFining technology. RIMPAC and Green Fleet demo. Held every two years by Commander, US Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), Rim of the Pacific ( RIMPAC ) is a multinational maritime exercise that takes place in and around the Hawaiian Islands. —Al-Sabawi and Chen (2012).
A fleet of self-driving shared cars combined with high-capacity public transport could make 90% of conventional cars in mid-sized cities superfluous under certain circumstances, according to a study published by the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD. Shared vehicle fleets free up significant amounts of space in a city.
The two LNG ships will replace two of nine conventional freighters in the Siem fleet powered by heavy fuel oil from 2019 onwards. These are used exclusively for the Volkswagen Group in a round trip scheme across the North Atlantic serving the markets of Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe.
Rail and inland waterway freight recorded increases of 11% and 17% respectively but saw their market share decline. Between 1995 and 2006 car ownership levels in the EU-27 increased by 22% (equivalent to 52 million cars, equivalent to the entire fleet of the UK and Spain combined), and passenger car use increased by 18%.
Registration allows prospective buyers to choose their electric vehicle and benefit from priority availability as soon as it comes onto the market. Renault estimates that electric vehicles will account for 10% of the world market by 2020. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is investing €4 billion (US$5.4 Fluence Z.E.
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