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Sweden inaugurates its first electric road

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Sweden inaugurated a test stretch of electric road on the E16 in Sandviken, thus becoming one of the first countries to conduct tests with electric power for heavy transports on public roads. Vinnova: Develops Sweden’s capacity for innovating sustainable growth and societal benefit. The test stretch on the E16 is two kilometers long.

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Scania to test wirelessly charged plug-in hybrid city bus for the first time in Sweden

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Inductive charging is among the options the company is exploring and would enable vehicles wirelessly to recharge their batteries via electrified roads. Now, for the first time in Sweden, Scania and the Stockholm based Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) plan to test the wireless charging technology in real-life conditions.

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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The capacity increase comes as Volvo Cars also reports its full-year sales results for 2020, which showed a strong growth in demand for the company’s Recharge models.

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Volvo Cars sales up 12.6% in the first 10 months of 2021; share of electrified cars >25% of all units sold for 10 months, 31.5% in October

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The share of Volvo Cars with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain—the Recharge models—amounted to 25.5% For the month of October, the share of Recharge cars accounted for 31.5% During the month of October, Volvo Cars also started production of the fully electric C40 Recharge in Ghent. of the overall sales.

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First Fast-Charged Hybrid Bus Debuts in Umeå, Sweden with Opbrid Bsbaar

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The world’s first fast rechargeable hybrid bus is now being tested in Umeå City, Sweden in a collaboration between the companies Hybricon AB, Opbrid SL, e-Traction BV, Umeå Energi AB and the Umeå City Corporation.

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Solaris participating in electric road trial in Sweden

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The demonstration site is to be situated in the city of Lund in southern Sweden, where a one-kilometer section of the road will be equipped with conductive rails, each of them one meter long and laid atop the road. It also allows to save time as there in no more need for regular stops for the recharge.

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Volvo Cars and partners launch One Tonne Life experiment in Sweden

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kWh used to power the car) that is recharged via a regular wall socket. The solar cells on the roof and the south-facing facade generate electricity that provides additional heating or is used to recharge the electric car. Volvo has provided a C30 Electric ( earlier post ) for use in the project.

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