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7h ago
Local authorities in Dublin plan to install 200 charging points at 50 sites inside council-owned car parks. Councils Dublin City, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin are working with EV firm ePower to install the charging points by the first quarter of 2025 ..read more
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7h ago
The former Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Arriva has put a fleet of 21 electric buses from Chinese manufacturer BYD into operation near Madrid. A bus depot in the town of Móstoles was electrified in advance for this purpose ..read more
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8h ago
Around 650 new fast-charging stations will be built at Roadchef motorway service stations in the UK. The initiative is part of a £20 billion package that the financial services provider Macquarie is putting together for an infrastructure offensive in the UK ..read more
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8h ago
Scottish bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis (ADL) is providing more details on its new Enviro200EV single-decker electric bus, which is due to be launched next year and will complement the current range of next-generation electric buses ..read more
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8h ago
The Norwegian shipping company Hurtigruten has provided an update on the plans for its first zero-emission cruise ship. Using various approaches, energy consumption will be 40 to 50 per cent lower than comparable ships. Batteries will serve as the primary energy source ..read more
Electrive
10h ago
The British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto is becoming one of the largest lithium producers in the world through a 6.7 billion US dollar takeover. This will thus supply one of the most important raw materials for electric car batteries on a large scale in future ..read more
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10h ago
US truck manufacturer Nikola Motor has announced that it let 135 of its employees go last Wednesday. The company's stocks continue to drop as the company struggles to maintain profitability despite delivering 88 fuel cell trucks in Q3 ..read more
Electrive
11h ago
The Irvine Police Department (IPD) has purchased a Tesla Cybertruck for its fleet. It won't be used as a patrol car, but is meant to spark a conversation between officers and the community - just like if police arrive on horseback or with a dog ..read more
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11h ago
Valeo and Mahle are jointly expanding their product portfolios for magnet-free electric motors (electrically excited synchronous machine, EESM). Specifically, the two suppliers want to develop an electric axle system with an output of up to 350 kW ..read more
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11h ago
A solution is emerging for the public transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités following the insolvency of Van Hool. The Swiss bus manufacturer Hess is to deliver a fleet of electric double-articulated buses originally ordered from Van Hool to the greater Paris area ..read more