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Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility’s fleet of XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks has collectively exceeded 1 million kilometers of driving in 11 months of service in Switzerland. During that time, the fleet has reduced CO 2 emissions by more than an estimated 630 tons, compared to diesel-powered vehicles. Earlier post.)
Honda will supply 50 Honda e electric vehicles ( earlier post ) to Switzerland’s car-sharing operator, Mobility. The Honda e units will be used as part of a car-sharing fleet in a trial which uses the Honda e’s bi-directional charging function to feed energy back to the grid when the vehicles are not in use for sharing.
BRUSA Elektronik AG is to supply the main drivetrain components such as motors, inverters and chargers for the E-FORCE, Switzerland’s first all-electric 18-tonne truck. The lead customers will each put one truck into their fleets for evaluation from August 2013. 2 x BRUSA NLG6 on-board fast chargers each supplying 22 kW.
Nestlé Switzerland and Renault Trucks (part of the Volvo Group) recently introduced an experimental all-electric refrigerated truck—nicknamed the e-Truck—that combines an all-electric 13t Renault Midlum developed by Renault Trucks with a refrigerated body that is also entirely powered by electricity.
A fleet of fifteen Zoe vehicles with V2G charging will be introduced in Europe over the course of 2019 to develop future offerings in reversible charging and to lay the groundwork for the future standards. Following these, more pilot schemes will be introduced in France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark.
This has led the company to deploy a growing fleet of XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks, the world’s first mass produced fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck, in Switzerland starting in 2020, which now has achieved a cumulated range of 3.5 Climate change and on-going supply chain issues will accelerate the transition to clean energy sources.
The venture will then lease a large portion of these fuel-cell powered trucks to the H2 Mobility Switzerland Association, which comprises major refueling station operators, transport and logistics companies, as well as to various other industry players that promote hydrogen mobility in Switzerland.
Irizar has signed a contract for 15 zero emissions electric buses and charging infrastructure for Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Irizar was awarded the supply contract for the first line of electric buses for the city of Schaffhausen by public tender.
Limited (CATL) have entered a global battery cell modules supply agreement for electric trucks. The heavy-duty Mercedes-Benz eActros with a range of around 200 km is in intensive customer trials as part of an eActros innovation fleet in Germany and Switzerland with the first customer hand over in 2018.
The FLIRT Akku vehicles are designed to replace the current diesel fleet and will enable sustainable operation on lines that are only partially electrified. This will make Stadler the first train manufacturer in the world to supply narrow-gauge trains with hydrogen propulsion.
Swiss shipbuilding company Shiptec AG, based in Lucerne, and Siemens Energy SRL, Milan, have selected Leclanché to supply energy storage systems for two new hybrid-powered vessels that will operate on Lake Geneva. The first of the nine ships ordered by Grimaldi is currently undergoing sea trials.
Hyundai Motor will supply its fuel cell electric commercial vehicles to major logistics companies in the Yangtze River Delta area where the company is going to establish and manage a fuel cell electric commercial vehicle operating company. In addition, it plans to promote a pilot operation business of fuel cell electric vehicles.
Starting at the end of 2021, Faurecia will supply hydrogen storage systems for a first fleet of light commercial vehicles. Faurecia has already gained major contracts for the production of Light Commercial Vehicles and for a large-scale Heavy-Duty commercial vehicle project to promote hydrogen mobility in Switzerland.
SkyNRG and AEG Fuels completed the delivery of sustainable aviation biofuels for the Bombardier Business Aircraft demonstration fleet flying from KLM Jet Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands to the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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GE Energy’s Industrial Solutions will supply and deploy the infrastructure products needed to make the projects possible, in particular charging stations and installer network. The agreement would see GE Capital lease EV vehicles across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.
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mpg US); electric cars having an almost 40% share of the entire vehicle fleet; and about 19% of the fuel used being of organic origin (mainly domestically produced biomethane gas and imported BTL fuel). In Switzerland, 56.5 Click to enlarge. Pushing vehicle efficiency to 3L/100km (78.4 —Rainer Zah.
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In recent months THINK has made a series of senior executive appointments from the automotive and clean-tech industries, won major new contracts in the drivetrain supply business, started the roll-out of sales into key European markets and now, re-started production in Europe.
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IONITY recently celebrated the launch of its 200sup>th charging station in Lully, Switzerland which includes ABB’s latest high-power, customized IONITY chargers. The customized chargers being supplied by ABB for IONITY are ABB’s slimmest design to date and align with IONITY’s design needs.
Initially focusing on the UK, Germany and Switzerland, the ambition is to grow the partnership throughout Europe. Providing integrated hydrogen solutions, where Hyundai Motor could provide fuel cell trucks and Shell offers hydrogen infrastructure for targeted fleet customers.
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The systems will be built at Leclanché’s facility in Switzerland with the cells manufactured at Leclanché’s Willstätt facility in Germany. The hybrid propulsion system delivered by Kongsberg includes supply and integration of shaft generators, frequency drives, energy management systems together with Leclanché battery systems.
Group press release | Zurich, Switzerland | 2021-04-12 ABB secures landmark contract with Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondán to supply all-electric power solution for fast 40-meter urban passenger ferries transporting up to 540 passengers each across Lisbon’s Tagus river.
The HERE-SBD Automotive EV Index highlights, since 2020, US state-level and European country-level leaders and laggards based on various critical metrics, including the number of charging points (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment), vehicle registrations, geography, and road network length. Highlights of the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index.
kW on-board charger typical for charging at industrial plugs (fleet-owners); and. LAMPO 2 is equipped with 4 different charging modes: Standard single-phase with up to 3.3 kW on-board charger for typical overnight home-charge; “Control-pilot” equipped and (EDF provided) PLC single-phase with 6.6
—Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, CEO of Fleet & Strategic Brands, A.P. Proman (Switzerland). Headquartered in Switzerland, with assets in the United States, Trinidad and Oman, and ongoing expansion into Mexico and Canada, Proman is a global leader in methanol, fertilizer and other products such as melamine. Moller - Maersk.
Volta Trucks’ sustainability ambitions are also carried over into the battery technology and supply chain sourcing selection. The Volta Zero has been designed to optimize its load-carrying capacity, thus minimizing the number of vehicles on an operator’s fleet, and the consequent congestion on city streets.
In conjunction with these efforts, Nissan has committed to make available a supply of electric vehicles to the Region’s public and private fleets in 2010, the year Nissan’s electric vehicle will be ready for the commercial market. Earlier post.).
Audi sees the potential for the use of CO 2 -neutral fuels to reduce fleet CO 2 emissions. Customers can order a supply of Audi e-gas when purchasing their g-tron. Around 90% of the energy demand can be supplied by low-temperature heat; the remaining energy is required in the form of electricity for pumping and control purposes.
As this current is up to 10 times less than would be the case without storage, the connection can be made with a cheaper and more readily available low-power supply. This converts the incoming AC supply to DC in a similar way as is done for DC railways, trams or trolleybuses. Click to enlarge.
Volkswagen is organizing the e-mobility weeks to inform politicians and policy-makers; journalists; dealers; fleet managers (70% of sales in Germany are to fleets); and the general public about present and future e-technologies and e-vehicles, as well as to make the case that, as one presenter put it: “ e-mobility is at the heart of Volkswagen ”.
Car fleet composition in the EU under the different scenarios. T&E said it opted for Enerdata because the POLES model developed and run by this institute is the only public model available in Europe they knew of that is capable of calculating oil prices as an output of supply and demand, rather than as an input. Click to enlarge.
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With that, it has become imperative to extend a Zero Trust architecture to systems of autonomous systems to protect not only drones but also industrial equipment, supply chain automation, and smart cities. Hackers managed to gain control over Tesla’s entire connected car fleet by exploiting a vulnerability in the communications protocol.
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