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Nissan Teams Up with LeasePlan to Bring Nissan LEAF to Europe

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LeasePlan is the first leasing company to offer the Nissan LEAF in Europe. The project will focus on driver behaviour and the operational side of running a fleet of zero-emission battery-powered cars. The car will be mass-marketed globally from 2012 onwards. LeasePlan operates a fleet of more than 1.3

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Mercedes-Benz eActros electric trucks moving to Rotterdam and The Hague

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After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

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UPS cargo eBike pilot in Seattle

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It’s exciting to return to our roots—UPS started in Seattle in 1907 as a bicycle messenger company. The UPS cargo eBike is equipped with a battery-powered electric motor that can travel longer distances than traditional bikes, carry substantial loads and navigate hills and other terrain.

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Volvo Car Group boosts production of V60 PHEV by 90%; 7,600 units in 2013

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Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) is ramping up production of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid ( earlier post ) by 90% to meet demand, especially in Holland, Belgium and Italy. The two companies have financed the development project jointly. Production at the Torslanda plant in Sweden will be increased continuously from 150 to 282 units per week.

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SORL launches new electric air brake compressors for electric buses

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WABCO Vehicle Control Systems—founded in the US in 1869 as Westinghouse Air Brake Company and now a leading Belgium-based global supplier of technologies and control systems for heavy commercial vehicles—also offers an electric air brake compressor: the E-Comp electrically-driven compressor.

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Europcar to introduce Opel Ampera extended range EV as a rental car throughout Europe

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The goal is to deploy the first vehicles in Europcar rental outlets in Germany in November of this year, followed soon afterwards by Belgium and the Netherlands. For the second time, Europcar was named the World’s Leading Green Transport Solution Company in 2010 by the World Travel Awards.

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UPS putting eBike into package delivery service in Ft. Lauderdale

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The eBike is equipped with battery-powered electric motors that makes it possible to cover longer distances than traditional bikes, carry substantial loads and navigate hills and other terrain. Maximum energy efficiency is achieved when combining battery power and human power simultaneously.

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