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British supermarket chain Asda now offers more home delivery using electric vehicles. The retailer wants to be carbon net-zero by 2040. Specifically, three stores in and around London and Sheffield now offer grocery deliveries using EVs only: Gillingham Pier, ...

Dutch public transport operator HTM procures 95 eCitaro

The transport company HTM in The Hague, Netherlands, announced the procurement of 95 electric buses and the associated charging infrastructure from Daimler subsidiary EvoBus. And the latter will get a new name in July. The order is preliminary and ...

Octopus Electric Vehicles garners £150 million

In the UK, Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, has agreed to a deal for £150 million of funding from Pollen Street Capital. The funds will primarily finance Octopus’ EV salary sacrifice offer launched in 2021. ...

Kansas City Fire Department procures 45 electric vehicles

The Kansas City Fire Department has introduced a fleet of 45 electric vehicles. This includes 14 Ford Mustang Mach-E, 27 Chevrolet Bolt and four Ford F-150 Lightning. The new electric vehicles have been assigned to the Administrative Chiefs in ...

Ebusco receives follow-up order from Germany

Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG (NIAG) has ordered 31 new electric buses from the Dutch manufacturer Ebusco. Ebusco has thus received a follow-up order even before the first vehicles from the previous order have been delivered. The current order for the ...

DHL to field electric transporters in Indonesia

DHL Express has expanded its electric fleet in Indonesia with 24 electric transporter vans. The new electric delivery vans will be used in the capital Jakarta and in Bandung. The delivery fleet is also to be electrified beyond this. ...

Chicago CTA to double electric bus fleet

Chicago-based public transport operator Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced plans to nearly double the size of its all-electric bus fleet with the purchase of 22 new electric buses. The Chicago Transit Board authorized the exercising of a contract option ...

Ebusco starts customer deliveries of the 3.0

The Dutch electric bus manufacturer Ebusco is starting to deliver the first Ebusco 3.0 from series production. These are 12-metre buses that will go on the road for Transdev in the Hilversum region. Over the next few months, the ...

Eni to kick off with electric car-sharing in Rome

The Italian car-sharing provider Enjoy has added 100 electric cars to its fleet in Rome. This is a first for the company that otherwise only offered combustion engine models in the Italian capital, while electric cars have started populating ...

Vestas orders over 100 VW ID. Buzz Cargo

In Europe, wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has ordered more than 100 VW ID. Buzz Cargo. The first examples of the electric model were already put into service in February 2023. The electric combi vans will be used for the ...

FedEx deploys BrightDrop electric vans in Canada

FedEx continues on course to a greener fleet by extending its partnership with BrightDrop into Canada. GM’s dedicated electric van brand shall deliver 50 transporters of type Zevo 600. This latest order is part of a much larger deployment, ...

Mitie makes another milestone in total fleet transition

Mitie, a leading facilities management company, has achieved another milestone in decarbonization by transitioning 50% of its fleet to electric vehicles. This news follows earlier advancements as Mitie is en route to electrifying its fleet fully by 2025. The ...

Maersk is growing the EV fleet with Volvo electric trucks once more

Maersk, the logistics company, has awarded Volvo Trucks a contract to deliver 25 electric trucks for container transport in Germany. Maersk expects the first two trucks of type Volvo FH Electric by the end of this year, with the ...

VW transforms Greek island into mobility and green energy showcase

Volkswagen continues to turn the Greek island of Astypalea into a full-blown lab for future mobility. The latest update reports that practically every new car registered on the island in the Aegean sea is electric. And that is just ...

Einride and PostNord expand zero-emission deliveries to Norway

Einride is expanding its operations in Norway by building on its partnership with PostNord. The postal provider manages 35% of all mail deliveries in Scandinavia and began electrifying its service fleets with Einride in Sweden last year. Now, both ...

Stellantis scores second large order for incoming Ram ProMaster EV

Stellantis announces a major deal for electric vans in North America. Merchants Fleet has ordered 12,500 electric transporters with Ram Truck, which the Stellantis brand will deliver over several years. The ProMaster EV van Merchant Fleet opted for is ...

Düsseldorf Rheinbahn orders 20 buses from VDL

The Düsseldorf Rheinbahn is ordering 20 battery-electric buses from the Dutch manufacturer VDL, including 15 articulated and five solo buses. Delivery of the first vehicles is scheduled for mid-2024. The number of electric buses at Rheinbahn increases to 30 ...

NHS Shetland to gain 24 MG4 Electric cars

NHS Shetland in Scotland has rolled out a fleet of new electric vehicles. A total of 24 MG4 Electric cars have been phased in to replace the former Mazda 2 fleet. This expansion will take the NHS Board’s total ...

100 Hyundai electric cars for UK building supplies firm

UK building materials supplier Nicholls & Clarke is going to include nearly 100 electric cars from Hyundai in its fleet. The Ioniq 5s and Ionic 6 electric vehicles will be the company’s first EVs. The company says its managers ...

Keolis to operate new Stockholm electric bus network

The Northern European public transport operator Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract to operate and maintain bus routes around Stockholm. Eighty per cent of distances undertaken by the company will be covered by electric buses; the remaining vehicles ...

Trucksters to electrify long-distance logistics from Spain

Spanish transport company Trucksters has closed a €33 million Series B funding round and announced plans to electrify parts of its long-distance freight transport service. The new investors include Continental, Volvo and the European Investment Bank. Trucksters offers long-distance ...

German online supermarket orders 1,000 electric vans

In Germany, the online supermarket Flaschenpost has purchased 1,000 new electric vehicles. The aim is to complete around half of all deliveries with electric vehicles by the end of the year. The new delivery vehicles will come from various ...

Trailer Dynamics & Mars Logistics to deploy 500 eTrailers

In Europe, Mars Logistics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Trailer Dynamics to reserve and deploy 500 eTrailers for fully zero-emission routes from Turkey to Germany. The use of eTrailers enables intermodal transport between trains and trucks on ...

eCitaro fuel cell buses to grace hilly Italian roads

The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro hydrogen fuel cell electric bus will be used in northern Italy from the end of this year. The public transport operator SASA has ordered nine examples of the 18-metre-long articulated version of the electric bus with ...

Seoul places massive FC bus order with Hyundai

South Korea’s capital Seoul wants to replace a total of 1,300 existing buses with new fuel-cell buses from Hyundai by 2026. This was agreed upon by Hyundai Motor, the Seoul city government, the South Korean Ministry of the Environment ...

Deutsche Bahn receives funding for 250 zero-emission buses

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, is on track to replace its fleet of diesel buses with electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. The first new buses have been ordered and will complement the existing electric bus fleets in several states. ...

Albert Heijn converts Rotterdam fleet to fully electric

The Dutch retail chain Albert Heijn is now also using exclusively electric vehicles in the centre of Rotterdam to deliver groceries to homes and to supply its shops. Last year, this step was already taken in The Hague. Albert ...

Leeds to launch an e-bike hire scheme this autumn

Leeds, a city in the northern English county of Yorkshire, has signed off a new electric bicycle scheme. More than 650 e-bikes will be available for hire via Beryl Bikes, with the system launching in Leeds later this year. ...

Hype H2 taxis cater to people with reduced mobility

The Hype hydrogen taxi fleet in Paris will be expanded this year by a total of 50 examples of the Stellantis models Peugeot e-Expert Hydrogen and Citroën ë-Jumpy Hydrogen for people with reduced mobility. The new H2 vehicles offer ...

New Flyer signs major electric bus delivery deal with Toronto

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has signed a framework agreement with the North American manufacturer New Flyer for the delivery of up to 621 battery buses. The public transport operator has already ordered 186 units. The order is for ...

Austrian police launches BEV pilot project

The Austrian police are testing a total of 23 electric cars in four federal provinces for their suitability in police service. The pilot project will start in the fourth quarter of 2023, but the 20 police stations in Salzburg, ...

California: Ford introduces flexible Mach-E lease for Uber drivers

Ford is introducing Ford Drive, a flexible leasing programme to help Uber drivers to switch to electric cars. So far, the offer is only available in some California cities. Ford Drive allows Uber divers to lease a Mustang Mach-E ...

VinFast scores major order from Sun Taxi

The Vietnamese electric car manufacturer VinFast has received a large order in its home country. Sun Taxi orders 3,000 units of the VF 5 Plus electric car, which are to be delivered successively until 2025. Sun Taxi will use ...

Australia: Canberra orders 94 electric buses

The Australian city of Canberra has purchased 94 electric buses. The first should be delivered later this year, while the rest will join the city fleet progressively through 2026. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has ordered 90 buses ...

UAE: Einride to set up freight grid with autonomous trucks

The Swedish electric transport specialist Einride wants to bring more than 2,000 electric trucks (some of them autonomous) and charging infrastructure to the United Arab Emirates. The goal is to set up a 550-kilometre “freight mobility grid”. Einride has ...

Mach2 consortium will unleash driverless shuttles in France

A French consortium comprising Alstom, EasyMile, Equans, Keolis, Renault Group and StatInf, is about to launch a fleet of autonomous minibuses. The project dubbed Mach2 includes level 4 autonomy, without a human driver onboard, and is a first in ...

Foothill Transit grows fuel-cell-electric bus fleet

Foothill Transit, a public transport agency serving the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in Southern California, is furthering its sustainability efforts with the introduction of Axess EVO-FC buses to its fleet. Manufacturer ElDorado National (ENC) will produce the buses ...

Vestas drives fleet electrification with Ford Pro in North America

Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has opted for electric pickup trucks by Ford to enter its service fleet in North America. The order of over 300 F-150 Lightning EVs will make up a large portion of the company’s vehicles there ...

Italian authorities get funding to procure Rampini buses

Italy’s bus maker Rampini has won a tender from the procurement agency Consip to supply up to 280 zero-emission buses. The contract will come into force this June, allowing public administrations to buy a Rampini e-bus with or without ...

Amsterdam’s growing e-bus fleet will charge smarter

Amsterdam’s public transit operator GVB is extending smart charging technology across its depots in the Dutch capital. Using technology by The Mobility House, GVB will charge its growing electric bus increasingly intelligently before the year’s end. In concrete terms, ...

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