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Skeleton Technologies and the Canadian automotive supplier Martinrea International are cooperating to equip refuse collection vehicles for use in Paris and New York with Skeleton’s so-called ‘SuperBattery’ technology. Martinrea International develops and produces electric vehicle technologies for heavy-duty commercial ...

Europe has over 450,000 charge points at present

Power2Drive Europe has crunched some numbers taking data from the EU Commission’s European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO) as its base. At the end of 2022, EV drivers could access 450,478 charge points in Europe; however, the deployment is not ...

France adds two Solaris buses to procurement shortlist

Solaris announces that the French Union of Public Purchasing Groups has added two Polish electric bus models to its procurement list. This makes Solaris a potential supplier of electric buses and trolleybuses for public transport projects in France. The ...

Enedis & Allego reach 107 stations in France

Allego and the French distribution network operator Enedis have opened 107 public fast-charging stations in France since the start of their cooperation. The duo announced the milestone on the anniversary of their roll-out that started exactly twelve months ago. ...

Reward traffic lights in France turn red for speeders

Cheaper to install than road bumps and chicanes

France: Atlante installs fast charger for Duval

Fast-charging provider Atlante, a joint venture between Stellantis, NHOA Group and Free2move eSolutions, is partnering with France’s Groupe Duval to build 188 DC and HPC charging points at sites owned by the property company across France. The first of ...

From Paris With Love

Fun First You join me in Dover on England’s southeastern shoreline, after just having gone through passport control. It’s 6:30am on Saturday morning, and in standard European road trip fashion my friends and I are each operating on a solid four hours ...

ALD & ChargePoint deepen cooperation to target corporate fleets

ALD Automotive and ChargePoint want to establish an electric Mobility Service Provider (eMSP) dedicated to corporate fleet electrification. The aim is to offer charging solutions across Europe for company fleets from the ChargePoint portfolio, including billing options. The new ...

Kuehne+Nagel starts decarbonisation with Renault e-trucks

The French arm of logistics company Kuehne+Nagel has received 23 electric trucks from Renault. Kuehne+Nagel will use the 16-ton trucks at eight locations in France and says the delivery was just the “first wave” in a bigger electrification effort. ...

Parisians vote against rental e-scooters

The city of Paris has asked its citizens to vote on the proposed ban on electric rental scooters in the city – with a clear result: 89 per cent of those who voted were in favour of banning rental ...

Strasbourg orders 60 hydrogen buses from CaetanoBus

Strasbourg public transport operator CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois) has signed a framework contract with Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus for the delivery of up to 60 hydrogen buses over the next five years. In a press release sent to ...

Li-Cycle and Kion Group sign battery recycling agreement

The North American battery recycler Li-Cycle is cooperating with the industrial truck manufacturer Kion Group. Under the agreement, which runs until 2030, Li-Cycle will recycle batteries from Kion’s global brands starting in the second half of 2023. “Through our ...

Lithium de France raises 44 million euros in Series B financing

When it comes to extracting lithium for EV batteries from geothermal brine, Vulcan Energy Resources is getting competition from France. Lithium de France, a company founded in October 2020 and based in Bischwiller, Alsace, has announced the closing of ...

HPC network: BP Pulse launches in France

BP has partnered with real estate company Compagnie de Phalsbourg in France to build more than 25 HPC hubs by 2025. The venture marks the market debut of charging infrastructure subsidiary BP Pulse in France. The 25 fast-charging parks ...

LiveWire One launches in Europe

The first all-electric motorcycle of Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire brand can now be pre-ordered in Europe. Just in time for the motorcycle season. For a €100 downpayment, customers in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the UK can reserve a LiveWire One ...

Fastned wins contract for two charging parks in Flanders

Fastned has been awarded the contract to install two charging parks on the E17 motorway near the Flemish town of Gentbrugge. The company also reports that it has opened the largest drive-through location in the company’s network in France. ...

Engie & Ceva launch alternative energy truck infrastructure JV

Energy group Engie has formed a joint venture with logistics provider Ceva Logistics and French motorway management company SANEF to build and operate a network of refuelling and charging stations for hydrogen, biogas and electric trucks along European motorways. ...

Mercedes to build first own fast chargers before 2023

After Mercedes-Benz announced far-reaching plans to build its own global HPC network in North America, Europe, China at the beginning of this year, the company is now giving more details. The development is to begin in the fourth quarter ...

Renault Trucks delivered one quarter of all electric trucks in Europe

Renault Trucks says it has achieved a market share of 24.2 per cent in the medium- and heavy-duty electric truck segment in Europe in 2022. Specifically, the Volvo Group-owned manufacturer sold 379 units of the E-Tech D and E-Tech ...

Tesla joins Gireve roaming platform

Tesla has joined the French roaming platform Gireve. It allows the electric car maker to partner with e-mobility service providers connected to the Gireve platform to give them access to its Superchargers. And, Tesla has already found a partner. ...

Daimler Buses focuses Mannheim plant on e-city buses

Daimler Buses is turning its plant in Mannheim, Germany, into a centre of competence for e-city buses. From 2024, the plant will focus entirely on producing electrically powered city buses and become more involved in component production. According to ...

Fisker Ocean could launch in Europe this year

According to carmaker Fisker, its first model, the Fisker Ocean, is getting ready to hit the streets in over 20 countries before the end of the year. Homologation testing for Europe and the US is said to be completed ...

Ionity starts opening HPC stations in France & Italy

Ionity has opened two new HPC sites in France and Italy on key travel routes connecting northern and southern Europe. Among them are the operator’s largest charging parks to date. The new dual charging parks in Mornas, near Avignon ...

Allego joins the Vinci Autoroutes network in France

French motorway management company Vinci Autoroutes has opened four fast-charging parks built and operated by Allego. Each location offers CCS fast chargers and a CHAdeMO and AC charging point. The new charge hubs have been installed in Les Brouzils ...

MagREEsource to recycle rare earth magnets in France

The French start-up MagREEsource has developed an environmentally friendly process for recycling rare earth magnets based on patented hydrogen technology and wants to commercialise it. MagREEsource has closed a five-million-euro financing round for its pilot plant in Grenoble with ...

Stellantis launches charger construction in Italy

The car company Stellantis has started building fast-charging stations in Italy. The first fast charger of the Atlante project was installed at a Stellantis dealer in Magenta near Milan. Soon, the first Atlante columns will also follow at Stellantis ...

Sepur employs 18 electric garbage trucks in Paris

Sepur, a waste management company, is using 18 Renault Trucks electric refuse trucks in Paris. The 18 E-Tech D Wide are used by Sepur for the collection of household waste in the 13th arrondissement, where they make around 100 ...

E.ON Drive to build chargers for VinFast

E.ON Drive has been commissioned by VinFast to build charging points at its sites in Germany, France and the Netherlands. As part of the cooperation, the E.ON subsidiary will cover the entire scope of the project, from planning and ...

Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi strengthen worldwide cooperation on EVs

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance unveiled more details about their partnership and new direction for the next 15 years. Plans include joint activities in Latin America, India and Europe – with talk of a joint 800-volt architecture in the latter case. ...

TotalEnergies & Air Liquide join forces on H2 refuelling for trucks

In Europe, the energy group TotalEnergies and the hydrogen gas manufacturer Air Liquide have decided to set up a joint venture to build hydrogen refuelling stations for heavy-duty vehicles in France, Benelux and Germany. The corresponding joint venture is ...

France reduces electric vehicle subsidies

The French government is cutting its subsidies for electric cars for 2023. The reduction of the eco-bonus, which had previously been postponed for a year, came into force on 1 January. Electric cars will now receive a maximum of ...

Leclanché batteries to power huge hybrid vessels

Leclanché says it has been selected as the battery provider for two hybrid vessels built for Stena Line and Brittany Ferries. The ‘E-Flexer’ ferries will be the world’s largest hybrid vessels and run between England and France with deliveries ...

Hertz to deliver 25,000 BEVs for Uber in Europe

Hertz and the ride-hailing company Uber are expanding their US partnership to Europe. Accordingly, Hertz wants to provide up to 25,000 electric cars for Uber drivers in European capitals by 2025. London, Paris and Amsterdam were explicitly mentioned so ...

Rouen to convert 49 diesel buses to electric

The Rouen municipality in northern France is having 49 Iveco Crossway diesel intercity buses converted to electric drives to operate as school buses. The project was awarded to a French consortium from which Greenmot will supply the retrofit kit. ...

Lidl opens four large charge parks in France

Lidl opened four fast-charging parks at shops in France at the end of last year. Each location has several DC charge points in different power levels and AC chargers. Two more facilities are to follow this year. The four ...

Europe tackles greenwashing

Climate activists recently put up 400 fake advertising posters for BMW and Toyota in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK, calling for a ban on advertising for fossil-fuelled vehicles, especially SUVs. The European Commission is also aiming to tackle ...

Verkor to source manganese in Czech Republic

French battery manufacturer Verkor, which is a partner of Renault, has signed a letter of intent with Canadian battery materials company Euro Manganese to source manganese for the production of vehicle batteries. A binding purchase agreement has yet to ...

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