CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

EV News Ireland — up to €25,000 for taxi drivers to buy electric vehicles Introducing the 2022 […]. EV news flows vigorously. Below are some top news releases and headlines from the past day or so. There is also related air and environmental news on the bottom of this post.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“Electric vehicles are toys for the rich.” ” That’s a common and decreasingly accurate dig at EVs, usually used by people who are far behind the times. Today, EVs are available at most price points (including used) where they make more financial sense.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2019

Transport for London (TfL) has ordered 20 hydrogen double-decker buses as part of its drive to make London’s transport zero-emission. Wrightbus in Northern Ireland will manufacture them, creating new jobs in the region. As part of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, TfL is committed to using only the cleanest buses in its fleet.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Nissan is leading a consortium which aims to establish a network of rapid chargers for electric vehicles running the full length and breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The RCN project is one of 30 priority transport projects across Europe identified by TEN-T.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

IBM has teamed with ESB ecars to implement a fully integrated smarter charging IT system that will help manage electric vehicle public charge points, which are being rolled out across Ireland by ESB ecars. This project is bolstered by Ireland’s energy policy to increase sustainable energy use in the transportation sector by 2020.

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JUNE 27, 2021

The buses were manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland, and the gas cylinders are manufactured by Luxfer in Nottingham. Oxford-based Ryze Hydrogen is responsible for transporting the fuel to the fueling station.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Denmark leads the way when it comes to putting zero-emission urban buses on the streets in Europe, with 78% of new vehicles being electric, according to the latest data from green NGO Transport & Environment. In Luxembourg and the Netherlands about two-thirds of new buses were zero-emissions.

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APRIL 12, 2010

The Irish Government; the ESB, Ireland’s largest electricity utility; and the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced a comprehensive partnership to position Ireland as a European leader in electric transport. for a pilot project in Ireland. Earlier post.). later in the year. later in the year. Fluence Z.E.,

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JUNE 10, 2016

Air pollution from sources such as transport and agriculture is still being emitted above legal limits in 10 European Union (EU) Member States according to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The main reasons for the exceedances are emissions from road transport (NO x ) and agriculture (NH 3 ).

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Late last year, the government of Ireland set a target of 10% of all vehicles in the transport fleet to be powered by electricity by 2020. A €1 million project by Sustainable Energy Ireland to research, develop and demonstrate of vehicles nationally. This will represent some 250,000 cars on Irish roads over the next 12 years.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

—Steve Scrimshaw, VP at Siemens Energy UK & Ireland and a member of the UK Government’s Hydrogen Advisory Council. Ammonia has a high hydrogen density and is readily transportable in bulk. It can be used for storing large amounts of hydrogen in a liquid form that builds on existing global supply chain infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The Holyhead Hydrogen Hub will be a first of its kind and is supported by the Isle of Anglesey County Council and the Welsh Government’s Local Transport Fund. Scale-up can extend to trains, public transport, and shipping, and will include diversification to other hydrogen markets such as heat, industry, power, and agriculture.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year, Blink Charging, a company well known in the United States (for better or worse), bought EB Charging, a company doing the same thing in the UK and Ireland. Now, they’re bringing the companies closer together with an integration and rebranding. As a result of its rebrand, Blink now has a highly visible presence […]

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In July, NEOS Chemicals Grangemouth, INEOS FPS and Petroineos, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Acorn CCS Project to work together to develop Scotland’s first carbon capture and storage system linking Scotland’s industrial heartland to the Acorn CO 2 transport and storage system in North East Scotland by 2027.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and South Africa. Universal Hydrogen Co. The conversion consists of a fuel cell electric powertrain that replaces the existing turboprop engines.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The project would provide 3 GWe of zero-carbon energy and is also expected to produce more than 3 million kilograms of green hydrogen per year for use by the UK’s transport sector, ensuring full utilization of the energy produced. Power generation at Wylfa could begin as early as 2027.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 16, 2022

As VinFast announced its plan to open more than 50 stores across France, Germany, and Netherland at EVS35, the Audi Environmental Foundation went into the third project phase with nonprofit startup Nunam on electric rickshaws. Battery modules from Audi e-tron test vehicles are electrifying rickshaws in India. Their target group: women.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The CLH Group is a leading international company in the transport and storage fuel products in Europe. The CLH Group is the leading company engaged in the transport and storage of oil products in the Spanish market and the second-largest logistics operator in Europe in terms of the extension of its pipeline network and storage capacity.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Preliminary analysis shows eleven Member States exceeding their respective NO x ceilings (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden). The pollutant for which most exceedances were registered was NO x.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The site EU-EVs.com have pulled the figures together, and I’ve created some charts of the April and January–April figures for this article.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

The market share of fully electric trucks and buses is growing at an impressive pace in Europe, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). In 2023, battery-electric transit buses made up 100% of purchases in Luxembourg, Ireland and Denmark, and 98% in the Netherlands.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

—Haneen Khreis, lead author of the study and an associated researcher at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

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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. International logistics service provider DB Schenker will bring a total of 36 additional FUSO eCanter vehicles into operation in eleven European countries.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Transportation is responsible for nearly a quarter of the global energy related CO2 and road transport makes up the lion’s share of it. As part of the equity investment, EIP’s Nazo Moosa, Managing Partner, EIP Europe, will join the myenergi board alongside Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco and Peter Richardson, former COO of Dyson.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

UPS partnered with the Seattle Department of Transportation to develop plans for the new pilot program. The Urban Freight Lab is an initiative that brings together transportation engineers and urban planners who manage public spaces with retailers, freight carriers and technology companies supporting transportation solutions.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) has ordered 120 double-deck battery-electric buses from Bamford Bus Company (trading as Wrightbus). The buses—Streetdeck Electroliner BEVs—will be manufactured and assembled at the Wrightbus facility in Galgorm, on the outskirts of Ballymena in Northern Ireland.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Ballard Power Systems has received follow-on purchase orders for 15 of its 85 kW heavy-duty FCveloCity-HD fuel cell modules from Wrightbus, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Northern Ireland, to power Fuel Cell Electric Buses (FCEBs) planned for deployment in the UK. Ballard expects to ship all 50 modules in 2020.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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JULY 14, 2019

and PM 10 emissions from road transport, and will become more dominant in the future. and PM 10 air quality in relation to road transport sources requires attention to reducing non-exhaust emissions, not solely a focus on lowering exhaust emissions. bottom) from road transport. Currently they contribute 7.4% and PM 10 emissions.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The research was funded by TOTAL Marketing Services and supported by MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine. In addition, there are other transportation modes, such as aviation or maritime, where electrification is simply not yet an option.

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MARCH 11, 2015

UK Transport Minister Baroness Kramer and Business Minister Matt Hancock announced a shortlist of 12 cities vying for a share of a £35-million (US$53-million) fund to become centers of excellence for low emission vehicles. Department for Regional Development of Northern Ireland. West of England. Dundee City Council.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2012

Opening this Wednesday (July 11, 2012) at the Convention Centre in Dublin, delegates will discuss how these regions are embracing the transition to electric transport and will share [.]. Dublin is about to get ‘Fully Charged’ with the opening of a one day conference this week, welcoming electric vehicle experts from Europe, the US and China.

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2022

The grant was launched to help make more expensive EVs more competitive with their gas counterparts, but in a press release by the Department for Transport, they believe the grant has run its course and is no longer necessary. for Transport, who pointed at the grants as a way to “successfully kickstart the electric vehicle market.”

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Teslarati

JANUARY 3, 2022

Electric vehicles are Norwegians preferred mode of transportation, at least that is what the data suggests. According to data from EU-EVs.com , Tesla sold 93,957 units of the Model 3 in Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden; the eleven countries the site tracks.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2022

and Ireland, where BP Pulse has invested in placing almost 7,000 chargers. Hopefully, with a similar amount of chargers in the United States, consumers here can also begin to transition to a more sustainable form of transport. This most recent deal follows numerous others from IONITY, BP Pulse, and countless others.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As the automotive industry develops vehicles with increased levels of autonomous driving requiring more sensors and increased connectivity, it faces the challenge of transporting and processing a huge amount of data in the vehicle.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 9, 2021

For two years, data has shown that Europe has slowly but surely started to adopt EVs as their preferred mode of transportation. EU-EVs tracks the sales of electric vehicles in eleven European countries, including Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Norway, France, the UK, and Sweden.

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