Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Power and automation technology group ABB has started installing multiple fast-charging systems for electric vehicles (EVs) at some BP service stations in the Netherlands as part of a nationwide trial. Prestige GreenCab, a Dutch taxi operator with a large electric-vehicle fleet, took the initiative for the installations in Utrecht.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Together with its customer Apple, DHL is piloting the heavy-duty vehicle, equipped with a fuel cell range extender from VDL, between Breda, the Netherlands, and Brussels, Belgium, as part of the Interreg NW Europe program H2-Share, coordinated by WaterstofNet. It transports deliveries of DHL Express’ customer Apple.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wensink Automotive, fleet operator Willemsen-de Koning and Mercedes-Benz Vans have signed a contract for the delivery of 80 eVito Tourer vans (electricity consumption combined: 24.2 – 20.2 The fully electric fleet is used for group transports in Utrecht and Rotterdam. kWh/100 km; CO 2 -emissions combined: 0 g/km) vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2020

ABB has entered into an agreement with Norway’s largest grocery wholesaler ASKO, and its owner NorgesGruppen, to supply charging infrastructure for its growing fleet of electric trucks. It started in Oslo in 2016 with a rebuilt truck from the Netherlands with a payload of five and a half metric tons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

The pilot schemes will begin in the Netherlands and Portugal. A fleet of fifteen Zoe vehicles with V2G charging will be introduced in Europe over the course of 2019 to develop future offerings in reversible charging and to lay the groundwork for the future standards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

The fleet is made up of 83 Citaro NGT hybrid solo buses and ten Citaro G NGT hybrid articulated buses. The EBS (Egged Bus Systems) public transport company is located in the town of Purmerend north of Amsterdam and operates several bus routes in the Netherlands. Passengers can charge their own end devices using numerous USB ports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

According to a report from Frost and Sullivan (Kumar, 2013), fleet managers adopted more than half of EVs sold globally up to 2013. Thereafter fleet managers adopted or indicated an intent to adopt a larger number of EVs because of the benefits that they offer. Sierzchula (2014) Click to enlarge. — William Sierzchula.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Neste is now also launching Neste MY Renewable Diesel to climate-conscious fleet customers in the Netherlands. The opening of our new office in the Netherlands marks an important step in the execution of our growth strategy for renewable aviation globally. EG Retail (Netherlands) B.V and Tamoil Nederland B.V.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

The Royal Netherlands Air Force concluded a test flight of a Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter powered by a 50% blend of renewable jet fuel produced by UOP, a Honeywell company. Natural oils from algae and used cooking oil were converted into Green Jet Fuel using process technology developed by UOP.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

New Urbino models running on hydrogen are about to join the fleet of electric buses of Solaris which have been serving as transport means for Bolzano residents for years. Solaris Bus & Coach has begun the delivery of vehicles under a deal signed in May 2019.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

ChargePoint Holdings, a leading electric vehicle (EV) charging network operating in North America and Europe, has acquired ViriCiti, a leading provider of electrification solutions for eBus and commercial fleets. The ViriCiti team, customer accounts and technology will become part of ChargePoint’s operations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

With the handover in Dublin, the FUSO eCanter is now running in ten European cities in Germany, the UK, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland. So far, the global FUSO eCanter fleet has achieved 1.6 More deliveries in Europe, Japan and the United states are set to follow successively.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

Phase I work is part of multi-phase development schedule that forms the basis of definitive agreements required in a trilateral partnership with Conoship International Projects BV from the Netherlands and Vega Reederei and Partners GmbH (VEGA) from Germany targeting zero-emission shipping markets with next generation redox flow batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The ferries will operate on three of the North Sea Canal routes, replacing the current fleet built in the 1930s. The aim of GVB’s extensive newbuilding and retrofit program aims is that the entire fleet will be hybrid or fully electric by 2025. Each ferry is 41 meters in length, is 13.9

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 19, 2022

The top 10 vehicles in the Netherlands in December in terms of registrations were all 100% electric vehicles. That score was only behind the all-time record set a year ago when the EU’s CO2 fleet rules […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the Netherlands and Germany, Volkswagen Passenger Cars managed to leap to the number one spot in all-electric vehicles over the full-year 2020 with a share of 23.8% in Germany in the BEV market and 23% in the Netherlands. In Sweden, the ID.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The hydrogen units will join the fleet of MPK in the second half of 2023. already owns 58 electric Solaris buses, which account for nearly 20% of its fleet. So far, Solaris has delivered 62 hydrogen vehicles to transport operators from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Poland.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

UK-based Tevva, a developer of long-range electric trucks, and Vattenfall Network Solutions, a division of Vattenfall, the leading European energy company, are partnering to help businesses switch to a zero-emission vehicle fleet and to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2021

DHL surveyed more than 600 selected service partners from Germany, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands on their sustainability performance, and according to the company, Girteka Logistics was one of the first companies to receive the certificate.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The high share of diesels in the PHV fleet can be also found in the traditional taxi market. It’s thought that other European cities where Uber operates have similar levels of diesels in their fleet. French government data from 2017 show that 90% of the registered private hire vehicles, which includes Uber, were diesel cars.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

Since 2021, Bidfood Netherlands has been a pioneer in the energy transition of food logistics in the Netherlands, progressively integrating Renault Trucks electric vehicles into its fleet. Currently operating 25 Renault Trucks E-Tech vehicles, the company is set to receive an additional 25 units.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

Dearman and TIP Netherlands (NL) have entered into a partnership to deploy alongside their regular fleet of refrigerated trailers Dearman’s liquid nitrogen-powered transport refrigeration units ( earlier post ) trailers leased by TIP to leading fleet operators.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

Wiener Linien, one of the biggest public transport operators in Europe, has added a hydrogen Solaris bus ( earlier post ) to its fleet for testing until 12 June. Since the première of the hydrogen bus in June last year, Solaris has been awarded orders from the Netherlands, Germany and Italy for 57 buses in total.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

REVIVE will place 15 fuel cell refuse vehicles to be tested in 8 different cities or regions in Europe: Breda, Helmond, Amsterdam, and Groningen (the Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Bolzano and Merano (in South Tyrol, Italy) and Gothenburg (Sweden). REVIVE represents the second fuel-cell-powered refuse truck in the Renova vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and LeasePlan, the European market leader in fleet and vehicle management, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the two parties will study ways to promote the use of electric vehicles and will investigate the options for a commercial approach towards corporate fleet customers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Despite an artificially inflated November 2020 (CO2 fleet mandates + fiscal changes), the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market managed to stay in positive territory last month (+7% YoY), with 10,613 plugin registrations logged in November, a new year best.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

meter midi bus, 12-meter and new 13-meter eBus models will enter service from the end of 2020 on routes throughout the Netherlands’ IJssel-Vecht region, including front-line operations in the municipalities of Zwolle, Apeldoorn and Lelystad. The landmark order comprises 259 BYD eBuses scheduled for programmed delivery from next summer.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Geely Holding Group’s electric mobility technology brand ZEEKR is partnering with home charging experts 50five to offer wallbox installations in the Netherlands. With a proven record of technical expertise and first-rate customer service, 50five has been selected to provide end-to-end charging solutions for both private and fleet customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

This marks the first step for Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (DVG) in its hourney to transform its fleet to completely emission-free by 2030. Furthermore, ongoing operations are assisted by eSConnect, Solaris’ bus fleet monitoring, and management system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Late in November, the AutomotiveCampusNL in Helmond at Brainport opened the third hydrogen station in the Netherlands. Operated by WaterstofNet , the Flemish/Southern Netherlands hydrogen network station is co-financed by the EU Interreg program.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Continuous servicing of the vehicles will be provided by eSConnect, a bus fleet monitoring and management system designed by Solaris. Since its launch in autumn 2022, the Urbino 18 hydrogen model has seen growing interest across the European market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Accordingly, in addition to electrification of the last mile and investment in alternative drives and fuels in its own fleet, another important lever is the scope of sustainable transport services provided by the Group's service partners. Ground transport accounts for 21 per cent of the Group’s total CO 2 e emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

BYD Company Ltd (BYD) and Rotterdam City entered into an agreement to deliver BYD’s all-electric e6 vehicles as part of the Netherlands’ green transportation project “75-EV-RO”; these will be the first BYD e6s in Europe. Netherlands Prince Maurits van Oranje test drives the BYD all-electric e6 in Rotterdam. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Maersk Tankers commercially manages the largest tanker fleet in the world. bp aims to regularly supply biofuel blends for their operated and time-charter vessels when they refuel in the Netherlands, subject to owners and Flag-state approval.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Utilizing onshore wind power, the project will initially supply green hydrogen to fuel a fleet of more than 600 fuel cell vehicles at the Zhangjiakou competition zone during the Winter Olympic Games. Taking only 13 months to complete, this is Shell’s first commercial hydrogen development project in China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

SkyNRG and AEG Fuels completed the delivery of sustainable aviation biofuels for the Bombardier Business Aircraft demonstration fleet flying from KLM Jet Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands to the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland.

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