Charged

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Norwegian Postal Service has ordered 29 electric trucks from Volvo Trucks—one of the truck-maker’s largest ever in Europe. The order follows an earlier one for three electric trucks. Volvo Trucks will deliver a total of 32 electric and 13 biogas-fueled trucks to Norwegian Post in 2022.

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Charged

MAY 17, 2022

Volta Trucks plans to introduce its electric commercial vehicles into North America, beginning in 2023 with a Volta Zero Class 7 truck (equivalent to the company’s existing European 16-ton truck) with a dry or refrigerated cargo box.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Tesla’s NACS plug and Supercharger network might help solve North America’s EV charging fragmentation problem, but EV buyers are still feeling uncertain. Meanwhile, Europe already dealt with its standards issue by settling on CCS2.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Volvo Trucks plans to offer a complete range of all-electric heavy-duty trucks in Europe, starting in 2021. The company is now running tests of the electric heavy-duty Volvo FH, FM and FMX trucks, which are aimed at regional transport and urban construction applications.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021. Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. and attracting major investments for its electric buses and vans still in development. Mike De Socio. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 02:00.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has announced that production of the electric version of its popular Sprinter van will start in the second half of 2023, in both North America and Europe. The new eSprinter is set to launch in the US and Canada in the second half of 2023, and the market launch in Europe will follow towards the end of 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

According to the research, Europe is leading the charge in the development of clean hydrogen, with Germany home to 25 of the total already operational projects (equal to 27%); the U.S. Since 2021, when the map was first published, the number of tracked production projects at any stage of development has increased by almost 50%.

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Charged

MARCH 9, 2022

Sales of heavy-duty battery-electric trucks are starting to climb in Europe, and Volvo Trucks claims to have established a leading market share of 42% in 2021. The company took orders for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. Production of the new Volvo FH, FM and FMX models is to begin in Europe this fall.

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Charged

JULY 4, 2022

AERO electric sedan, which the automaker calls a “close-to-production concept car.”. AERO will be offered globally in future—also in Europe and North America in addition to China.”. AERO will be the fourth fully-electric model series in China. That’s where Volkswagen recently chose to present the ID. Concept Car.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

DFDS, a shipping and logistics firm based in Northern Europe, has placed an order with Volvo Trucks for 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks. The FM Electric can carry a gross combination weight of 44 tons, and has a range of up to 300 km.

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Charged

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Deutsche Post DHL Group is going electric—the German logistics giant plans to invest some 7 billion euros in electrification between now and 2030, by which date it aims to make 60% of its delivery vehicles zero-emission. Now DHL has announced plans to buy more than 2,000 electric delivery vans from Ford by the end of 2023.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 17, 2022

Available data shows Tesla has been growing its presence in three of its key markets, North America, Europe, and China. According to a StockApps analysis, it grew its U.S market share from 1.2 percent in Q1 2020 to 2.7 percent in Q1 2022. That’s a 125 percent jump in its American foothold in the last […].

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Charged

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Commercial EV specialist Proterra will provide battery technology for a new generation of electric buses made by Turkish commercial vehicle manufacturer Anadolu Isuzu. Anadolu Isuzu operates in the medium-size bus and truck segments, and sells in around 50 countries, mostly in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Source: Prote r ra.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal with ViriCiti aims to strengthen fleet management services for growing number of companies switching to electric vehicles. Pasquale Romano, president and CEO of ChargePoint, said the deal with ViriCiti would further increase functionality available to electric bus and commercial fleet operators.

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Charged

JANUARY 14, 2022

In an independent energy efficiency test with a fully loaded heavy-duty electric Volvo truck in Germany, the truck exceeded its official range, and used 50% less energy than its diesel counterpart. The tested truck was a Volvo FH Electric, which has a gross combination weight of 40 tons, a 540 kWh battery pack and continuous power of 490 kW.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The dawn of electrified trucking: Routes to decarbonising commercial vehicles forecasts that by 2030, zero-emission vehicles (battery-electric or fuel cell) will account for a third of all trucks in Europe, North America and China, and 70 percent by 2035. Source: PwC via Electrive Image: Mercedes-Benz.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2023

Investment to be used to support expansion of its electric vehicle to grid integration services across UK, North America and Europe

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Charged

JULY 19, 2021

New CEO Toshihiro Mibe has announced that his company hopes to go all-electric by 2040. Honda has already announced plans to sell only electrified vehicles in Europe by 2022, and to go all-electric in North America by 2040. Mibe’s announcement confirms a shift that Honda has been hinting at for some months.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is estimated to power 130,000 homes in Scotland for two hours, using electricity that would have otherwise gone to waste due to lack of capacity to store surplus wind power. Zenobē said it has selected several market leading suppliers that are developing key technologies to deliver large-scale battery storage facilities.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has cautioned against the impacts of electric vehicle (EV) charging on bulk power system reliability, calling for cross-sector coordination to bolster and ensure the reliability of the power grid. Without greater collaboration, they add, policymakers may need to act.

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Charged

APRIL 2, 2021

DHL Freight and Volvo Trucks have partnered to test the introduction of heavy-duty electric trucks for regional transport. To date, most deployments of electric trucks in Europe have been for shorter distances within urban areas. The Volvo FL Electric and FE Electric trucks for city distribution are in serial production.

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Energy Central

MAY 1, 2023

Global technology company Siemens predicts that the market for wireless EV charging in Europe and North America will reach $2 billion by 2028.Read Read More

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This undisclosed manufacturing facility, recognized as one of the largest electric vehicle and battery production campuses in the country, plans to leverage Plug’s hydrogen fuel cells for effective and sustainable handling of its material fleet. auto-manufacturing sector.

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Charged

JANUARY 10, 2024

InductEV’s patented technology is currently being used in locations throughout North America and Europe. Detroit Manufacturing Systems is no newcomer to the EV industry—it currently handles manufacturing for the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup. “We

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Charged

MARCH 16, 2023

VW says Canada offers ideal conditions for cell manufacturing, including supplies of raw materials and wide access to clean electricity. 4 electric SUV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and will also upgrade its plants in Puebla and Silao, Mexico, to assemble EVs and potentially components such as electric motors.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 20, 2022

Software and services are empowering the traditional electricity, gas and water meter hardware, unlocking greater value than ever from metering data, which will disrupt the future of utilities and the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) industry. “A Head-end software adoption by sector (Europe and North America combined).

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Charged

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Passat-sized battery-electric sedan will be sold in North America, Europe, and China. 7, the next new model in its growing range of “ID” battery-electric models today, in an event held before the doors of the huge Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas open to the public Thursday. The new ID.7

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Charged

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition. In 2022, the same three companies agreed to jointly invest some $550 million to build and operate a public charging network for heavy-duty EVs in Europe.

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Charged

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tesla is taking another step toward that glad day by releasing a CCS-to-Tesla plug adapter to markets outside of Europe. When Tesla launched Model 3 and Supercharger V3 in Europe, it moved to make CCS its charging standard, adding CCS to new Model 3s and introducing a CCS adapter for Model S and Model X owners. Source: Electrek.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM says its planned Battery Chemicals Complex will position Saudi Arabia as “a global midstream hub for the production of high-purity chemicals required by electric vehicle and battery cell manufacturers.” Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year. Source: EV Metals Group.

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Canary Media

JULY 27, 2023

based startup ev.energy has built a customer base of 120,000 electric-vehicle drivers in Europe and North America who are using its charging software to save money, ease stress on the power grid and soak up as much surplus clean energy as possible. Over the past five years, U.K.-based But the company wants to go way…

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2023

Electrical giant Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Heliox , a specialist in fleet-oriented fast charging solutions. Siemens says this acquisition will complement its existing eMobility charging portfolio, adding products and solutions for DC fast charging focused on electric bus and truck fleets.

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Charged

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Featuring speakers from organizations including: AAA Aeversa Automobility Advisors Bridgestone Mobility Solutions (Webfleet) BRUGG eConnect AG Celanese ChargedPodX Chargetrip CSA Dynalene EPRI EV Realty Franklin Electric EV Systems Gage Zero i-charging Kimball Electronics NACFE NI and Averna OMRON and TTI, Inc.

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Charged

JUNE 16, 2023

Effenco’s Hybrid Electric solution electrifies the vehicle’s onboard equipment using ultracapacitor-based technology. It eliminates the need to run engines when trucks are stationary.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The integration, believed to be a first for quantum-based cyber protection in smart meters, sees quantum computing-hardened encryption keys integrated into all Honeywell’s smart meters for gas, water and electricity. The smart meter products with Quantum Origin from Honeywell are available now to customers in North America and Europe.

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

Electric road trips were impractical, and the paucity of infrastructure was a major consumer objection to buying an EV (it still is). According to the Swedish EV mag Elbilen (the name means “electric vehicles”), Tesla has applied for support to deploy some chargers under a program that requires that they be open to all EVs. “We,

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has announced far-reaching plans to launch a global high power charging network across North America, Europe, China and other key markets. The aim is to have the full network in place before the end of the decade, when Mercedes-Benz intends to go all-electric wherever market conditions allow.

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