Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Volvo XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric vehicle, will carry an MSRP of $53,990 when it arrives in US showrooms later this year. The purchase of an XC40 Recharge may qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500. State and local incentives could add further benefits. National Charging Network.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Volvo has been selling EVs under the Recharge name for a while now, but the automaker is shifting to new branding for its latest models. The EX90 is on sale now, and the EX30 is coming soon, but Volvo is also renaming an existing electric model to align with the updated naming system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2023

The sales growth was led by the company’s Recharge line up of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge models made up 40% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month. In February 2022, the share of all-electrics was only 8% (3,338 units out of 42,067).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Solaris and the Romanian city of Craiova (Romania’s sixth-largest city) have signed a contract for the delivery of 16 18-meter articulated Urbino 18 electric buses. All the electric buses will be delivered in July 2021 at the latest. The driveline in the articulated electric buses will consist of a 240 kW central motor.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

As part of a new package of product updates, Volvo Cars has improved both the range (WLTP) and charging for the all-electric XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge compared with the outgoing model year, increasing range by as much as 60 kilometers on some variants. The return of rear-wheel power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2020

The first of 130 Solaris electric buses ( earlier post ), a Solaris Urbino 18 electric bus, no. Since the beginning of the year, Warsaw has been delivered electric buses under the contract that Solaris secured in July last year. Each of the 130 articulated, electric Urbinos has a capacity for 133 passengers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, rechargeable batteries accounted for 54% of total lithium demand, almost entirely from Li-ion battery technologies. In any case, the underlying demand growth for lithium compounds remains strong, with demand from rechargeable battery applications forecast to exceed 220kt LCE in 2020, representing roughly 70% of total lithium demand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Sales of Volvo Cars´ Recharge models of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars increased by 31% in January year-on-year, accounting for 40.7% The share of fully electric cars stood at 16.2%. Recharge sales, which in addition to fully electric cars also includes plug-in hybrids, accounted for 59.8%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. Volvo XC40 Recharge production in Ghent, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Peugeot brand is now offering a full range of electric utility vehicles in Europe. The Peugeot PARTNER is now available with a 100% electric powertrain. The electric drive train (electric motor, inverter and DC/AC charger-converter) is similar to the new PEUGEOT e-EXPERT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Following completion of final UK testing, an electric bus developed by Equipmake and featuring the company’s electric powertrain is headed to Buenos Aires where it will begin in-service trials. When the battery is depleted at the end of a complete duty cycle, it can be recharged at the depot overnight via a CSS2 DC charging point.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

signed a contract for the delivery of six electric buses. Newly commissioned Urbino 12 electric buses will start the electrification of the city’s public transport. Having won the tender, Solaris will produce six low-floor 12-meter electric buses for the operator MZK Malbork. Malbork has opted for inverted pantographs, i.

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EV Central

MARCH 20, 2025

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

The traction batteries will be recharged both en route (via in-motion charging technology) and overnight at the depot. Bucharest is one of 8 cities in Romania with Solaris’ zero-emission vehicles—trolleybuses and electric buses. All Trollinos will be equipped with efficient air-conditioning of the passenger area.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a room-temperature solid-state lithium-air battery that is rechargeable for 1,000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates. Ngo, Paul C. Redfern, Christopher S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2022

Toshiba Corporation expanded its SCiB product offering with the launch of a 20Ah-HP rechargeable lithium-ion battery cell that delivers high energy and high power at the same time. In an EV, for example, a high-energy battery allows the vehicle to drive further on a single charge—but it lowers power input and output and extends charge times.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

iei), with seven local towns and cities as beneficiaries, Solaris has been awarded an order for 123 out of 131 electric buses. All the Urbino 12 electric buses will be designed for both pantograph and plug-in recharging. rilor Publice, Dezvolt?rii i Administra?iei), The total value of the contract stands at nearly €65 million.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2023

SUE Mosgortrans has started testing GAZelle e-City electric minibuses, produced by Russia’s GAZ. The electric bus accommodates 16 passengers, 13 of them with seats. The tests of the electric minibus will last until the end of February 2024. The e-City is based on GAZ’s diesel-powered City minibus.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2022

EMT, the public bus operator in the City of Madrid, has ordered 60 Urbino 12 electric buses from Solaris, featuring high energy batteries and pantograph charging which will ensure high operability in all kinds of conditions. Batteries can be recharged by means of an inverted pantograph, or conventionally via a standard plug-in connector.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the public transport operator for the Barcelona metropolitan area has ordered 24 Solaris Urbino 12 electric buses, which will arrive by the end of 2022. The public already has 19 articulated Urbino 18 electric buses; this bus family will grow by 24 standard-length units,—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars. Volvo Cars’ Recharge line-up of chargeable models, with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain, made up 41% of all Volvo cars sold globally (67,403 units) in Q1 2023. The share of fully electric cars (12,621 units) during the period ended up at 18%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

a developer of electrified powertrain solutions for Class 8 commercial vehicles, launched its Hypertruck Electric Range Extender (ERX), a long-haul, natural-gas series-hybrid electric powertrain. It will achieve 25 miles of pure electric vehicle range in compliance with cities adopting “Zero Emission Zones.”. Hyliion Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2020

The new PEUGEOT e-Traveler electric van offers two battery capacities (50 kWh, 18 modules or 75 kWh, 27 modules) for up to 330 km (205 miles) of range in the WLTP certification cycle. All versions of the new PEUGEOT e-Traveller are equipped with the electric parking brake, a new feature on this model.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Modesto City Schools in California has a{purchased} 30 Blue Bird All American Type D electric school buses. The order—the single largest order of electric school buses from a school district for Blue Bird so far—enables the school district to convert nearly 50% of its diesel-powered bus fleet to electric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

LiveWire is opening reservations for the production version of the all-electric S2 Del Mar motorcycle, the first LiveWire model to feature the new ARROW architecture, and the first bike to sit next to the LiveWire ONE—the company’s flagship electric motorcycle. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2023

Bremer Strassenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered 35 all-electric eCitaro G low-floor articulated buses from Mercedes-Benz with the latest NMC 3 (NMC: lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide) battery technology. The buses are recharged using five charging systems permanently installed at the depot, each with an output of 150 kW.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

Rechargeable batteries store electricity in their electrode materials, while redox flow batteries use chemicals stored in tanks attached to the electrodes. Researchers have now developed a battery system based on a hybrid cell, which not only stores and provides electricity but also produces valuable chemicals in a flow system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) will start using 30 electric trucks to make “last mile” deliveries to local customers in Belgium. Through a key partnership with Renault Trucks, the beverage manufacturer is electrifying one-fifth of its truck fleet and creating the largest fleet of electric trucks in Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Rolls-Royce is developing turbogenerator technology—including a new small engine—designed for hybrid-electric aviation applications. The turbogenerator will recharge batteries after take-off or power propellers directly, enabling aircraft to switch between power sources in flight.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Solaris unveiled its latest vehicle, the 9-meter low-entry Urbino 9 LE electric. The Solaris Urbino 9 LE electric has been standardized with all other vehicles of the 4 t h generation. The Urbino 9 LE electric bus is equipped with an electric central motor with a peak power output of 220 kW.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

Allison Transmission’s eGen Flex, its next generation electric hybrid propulsion solution ( earlier post ), will be put into revenue service at New York City Transit (NYCT) in May. Moving these accessories to electric power reduces the strain on the engine, reducing fuel consumption and maintenance costs over the vehicle’s lifetime.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

The company’s fully electric cars were the main contributor to the growth, rising 196% during the period to 10,826 units (). Sales of Volvo Cars´ Recharge models of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars increased by 55% in May, accounting for 40% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation announced a limited launch of the C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) to corporate users, local governments and other organizations that have been exploring new options to drive the popularization of BEVs. and TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc. and TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Citroën is supplementing its range of electric LCVs with hydrogen technology to meet the needs of the 8% of companies required to make journeys of more than 300 km (186 miles) or lacking the time to recharge their vehicle during the day. It can also be charged using a cable at electric-vehicle charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In August this year, Hamburger Hochbahn, one of the biggest public transport operators in Germany, announced a list of potential suppliers of 530 electric buses. Since then, the manufacturer has delivered two electric buses with a hydrogen fuel cell and eighteen Urbino 12 electric buses to the German city. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Solaris unveiled its latest vehicle, the 9-meter low-entry Urbino 9 LE electric. The Solaris Urbino 9 LE electric has been standardized with all other vehicles of the 4 t h generation. The Urbino 9 LE electric bus is equipped with an electric central motor with a peak power output of 220 kW.

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