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Europe’s sightseeing buses are graduating from vegetable oil fuel to electric and solar power

Baua Electric

Tootbus describes itself as the world’s first clean energy sightseeing bus company, specializing in hop-on hop-off tours around Europe, including Bath, London, Paris, and Brussels. Additionally, the sightseeing company has deployed three fully electric open-top buses in London with plans for another thirty before the decade’s end.

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DHL locks in 44 EV truck order from Volvo for regional hauling

Teslarati

Global logistics provider DHL and Volvo Trucks announced today the signing of a cooperation agreement for an intended order of 40 Volvo FE and FL all-electric trucks to be used for regional hauling and package deliveries. It was the first fully-electric commercial heavy truck used for urban logistics in the United Kingdom.

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Nissan and Uber partner in London: 2,000 LEAFs

Green Car Congress

This deal will help to deliver Uber’s vision for every car on the app in the capital—around 45,000 drivers—to be fully electric from 2025. Through the Clean Air Plan, drivers will on average save £4,500, depending on the miles they’ve driven, off the cost of switching to an electric car.

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European sightseeing tours go electric—Big Bus Tours deploys 40 electric buses – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The company is introducing 20 new Ankai electric buses in Paris and Vienna, and retrofitting 20 buses in London by converting 20 of its existing diesel buses to EVs. The addition of the new electric buses in the three European cities will bring the company’s total electric fleet to 51, about 10% of its global fleet.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

You also must consider the electricity that charges the vehicle. In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. In our model, using electricity from the 2019 U.S. And only 3 percent of the new vehicles sold were fully electric.