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Founded in 1947 in Belgium, Van Hool was a storied name in bus and coach manufacturing, known for producing a range of vehicles spanning diesel, hybrid, battery-electric, and hydrogen fuel-cell models. For decades, it supplied public and private transport fleets across Europe and beyond, cementing its reputation as an innovative.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Scania is delivering 85 ethanol-powered buses to Nobina, which operates on behalf of the Stockholm regional public transport company, Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL). In recent years, Scania has also delivered ethanol buses for commercial service in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Norway and elsewhere. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2022

Van Hool, the Belgian manufacturer of buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, presented its first edition of a completely new range of 100% zero emission buses on the first day of Euro Mobility Expo 2022, an international trade show for public transport. Our customers are focusing on greening their fleets and are pursuing zero emissions.

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JULY 18, 2021

De Lijn, the public transport operator (PTO) in the Flemish part of Belgium, is ordering 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses; further, the operator confirmed the upgrade of 280 if its current hybrid buses into e-hybrids. De Lijn introduced its first hybrid buses in its fleet in 2009, and currently operates 530 hybrid buses.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

A new European project, AMITRAN , is developing a methodology to assess the impact of ICT (information and communication technologies) and ITS (intelligent transport systems) on CO 2 emissions from the transport sector. Since present transport emissions are 27% above 1990 levels, this will be particularly difficult to achieve.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Scania has received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige in Sweden. Keolis Sverige’s vision is to use locally suited, sustainable transport to double transit ridership in Swedish cities. The delivery to Keolis consists of urban, suburban and intercity buses.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 7, 2024

Largest emission-free bus fleet in Belgium: Hansea expands its fleet by a further 181 vehicles to a total of 271 Lion’s City E buses The fully electric 10-metre, 12-metre, and 18-metre city buses are used throughout Flanders Sustainability, flexibility, and reliability of the eBuses, as well as many years of.

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MAY 19, 2022

GVB, the public transport company of Amsterdam, is further expanding its electric fleet with 84 new generation VDL Citeas. For the expansion of the GVB fleet, VDL Bus & Coach is also responsible for implementing the charging infrastructure. Part of this is that GVB provides completely emission-free bus transport in 2025.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

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. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Funded by the Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, the HyTEC project (Hydrogen Transport for European Cities), which is part funded by the Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), will also see the installation of an Air Products hydrogen fueling station in London. HyRaMP , Belgium. Element Energy Ltd , UK.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

This collaboration is in line with the implementation of the DAFI Directive (Directive 2014/94 - Deployment of Alternative Fuels Infrastructures), with a particular focus on certain countries and regions, starting from Wallonia, Belgium. ENGIE considers transportation a major development focus.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Volvo has received an order for 11 electric hybrid buses and 2 ABB automated electric bus fast-chargers to the city of Namur in Belgium with public transport authority and operator TEC. Every year the TEC Group transports more than 250 million passengers. This is the largest order to date for the company’s electric bus system.

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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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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 10 fuel cell modules to power Van Hool A330 buses to be deployed in Emmen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Van Hool A330 Fuel Cell Buses powered by Ballard.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

—UTC Power Vice President-Transportation Ken Stewart. Three of AC Transit’s buses are equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems and have now traveled more than 213,000 miles, with an average fuel economy that is 65% better than the control fleet of diesel buses running the same routes and duty cycles.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

area will have a larger fuel cell bus fleet in the United States, also equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems. UTC Power has provided fuel cell powerplants for fleet transportation since 1998 and its made-in-Connecticut fuel cells have powered buses in the United States, Spain, Italy and Belgium.

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MARCH 14, 2014

is an electrified vehicle that is used to transport DHL Express shipments at the moment in France as well as in Aruba, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. In addition to its fleet, the company invests in its network optimization, operations, and a sustainable use of energy in its buildings and business operations. The Kangoo Z.E.

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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 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. Tests on a fleet of about 50 cars have been conducted since autumn 2010, mainly internally at the Volvo Car Corporation.

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MAY 23, 2019

RNG is a key part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025, supporting the logistics leader’s efforts to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its ground fleet 12% by 2025. —Mike Casteel, UPS director of fleet procurement. UPS CNG tractor trailer.

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MAY 14, 2020

As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus is sending a fleet of demo e-buses to customers in five European countries this year. The fleet comprises 15 test vehicles, which will be deployed as part of everyday operations. Sales of the 18-meter electric bus started in April.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Each step along this ladder increases operators’ control over their fleets while improving the fleet’s efficiency and performance. Through digitalization, we will accelerate the transition towards more efficient, seamless, and sustainable transport systems.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The buyer is public transport company TEC Group. Once the 35 new buses take to the roads, 90% of Namur’s public transport will be electrified. Volvo Buses has secured its largest order yet for complete solutions for electric bus traffic. The charging stations will be delivered by ABB.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The corridor is one of the busiest road freight routes in Europe connecting key North Sea ports in Belgium and the Netherlands with the Mediterranean port of Genoa in Italy connecting through a network of roads stretching in total 1,300km. The 300kW charging stations are each capable of charging more than 20 E-Trucks per charger each day.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. With to the hybrid power source, the buses, with a tank capacity of 38.2

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Many customers would like to change their vehicle fleet over to sustainable drive concepts and, especially in urban zones, to operate their routes using battery-electric vans. Belgian food box provider HelloFresh has received seven Mercedes-Benz eVito refrigerated electric vans with a cooling upfit made by Kerstner.

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MARCH 31, 2016

ENGIE, a global operator in electricity, natural gas and energy services markets, will invest nearly €100 million from now to 2020 to build Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) stations for filling up the European fleets of trucks with natural gas and biogas.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW fuel cell modules to power buses in Groningen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Ballard plans to deliver the 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW modules in 2020.

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APRIL 9, 2019

At the end of March 2019, Hynamics teams have identified and are working on some 40 target projects, in France as well as other European countries including Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. These services constitute an additional asset for the Electric Mobility Plan announced by the Group in October 2018.

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MARCH 24, 2018

Cities increasingly find themselves faced with the challenge of reconciling a healthy climate and their inhabitants’ quality-of-life demands with the transport of goods and deliveries in central urban areas. With this in mind, the vehicle’s theoretical range of up to 160 kilometers covers about three-quarters of all urban-core transport.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Solaris has won a tender for 45 double-articulated Urbino 24 electric buses, that will be integrated into the transport network of the Belgian city of Liège. Solaris’s double-articulated electric buses will join the fleet in Liège, Belgium. The first order under this tender was placed for 18 buses.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Leeds researchers led by Professor Oliver Carsten from the Institute for Transport Studies will work with transport research centers across Europe, as well as several leading vehicle manufacturers, to design and test the devices, which could be on the market within 5 years. The University of Leeds (UK) is leading a £13-million (US$20.6-million),

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JULY 11, 2011

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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JUNE 26, 2017

In 2015 Leclanché unveiled its first all-electric bus in Belgium. The industry is set to see considerable growth in the next few years and we look forward to the economic contribution that the agreement with Škoda Electric will make to Leclanché’s transport business. —Anil Srivastava, CEO of Leclanché.

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MAY 2, 2013

But significantly cutting the greenhouse gases from transport will also require a more fundamental change in the transport modes we use and how we use them.” It shows that average CO 2 emissions from the new car fleet in the EU fell by 2.6 % between 2011 and 2012. —Jacqueline McGlade, EEA Executive Director. EEA report.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Maxus is continuing to establish partnerships with large businesses looking to reduce their fleet emissions and vehicle operating costs. The standard EV80 model can be configured as a passenger bus, transporting eight people plus the driver.

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MAY 7, 2021

The 16-tonne Volta Zero will be the first vehicle delivered, with Pilot Fleet trucks built by the end of 2021, and series production starting around 12 months afterwards. A Pilot Fleet of the smaller 7.5-tonne This vehicle is currently in the engineering development phase, with early prototype testing due to start shortly.

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