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14 June 2009
The RWE Group and APCOA Autoparking GmbH are entering into a partnership in the area of electric mobility. The two companies are launching a joint roll-out of charging points for electric cars in publicly accessible parking areas. This will make it possible for drivers to recharge their electric vehicles very conveniently, for example while they [...]
Category: Mobility
New FuelCell Hybrid Bus introduced by Daimler
10 June 2009
The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid bus had its world premiere this week at the UITP Congress in Vienna (the World Congress of the International Association of Public Transport). This fuel cell hybrid bus is the first representative of the new generation of fuel cell models from Daimler Buses.
The new Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid draws on [...]
Category: Mobility
Amsterdam Installs Charging Stations for Electrical Vehicles
1 June 2009
The Dutch city of Amsterdam will install 45 charging stations for electric vehicles as part of a two-year public demonstration project. Amsterdam plans to deploy 200 charging stations before 2012, and the charging stations are expected to fuel 10,000 electric cars in 2015. Leading energy company Nuon will provide renewable energy for the charging stations. Coulomb [...]
Category: Mobility
Shell Eco Marathon 2009 (advertisement)
26 May 2009
Category: Energy, Energy savings, Mobility
Hydrogen powered motorcycle in 2010 on the market
24 May 2009
Most of the attention the last few months has gone to electric cars. So we seem to neglect other developments. It’s been a little while since we last heard from Suzuki regarding its planned hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle, but apparently the Japanese company has been hard at work getting the machine ready for production, in [...]
Category: Mobility
Hydrogen powered Municipal Street Cleening Vehicle introduced
22 May 2009
A hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle was presented to the public last week in Basel. The vehicle is named the “Bucher CityCat H2″ and is the first municipal utility vehicle in the world powered by fuel cell technology. For the next 18 months it will be tested in everyday usage
Developers are Empa and the [...]
Kyocera Supplies Solar Modules for New Toyota Prius
21 May 2009
Kyocera Corporation announced that it is supplying solar modules for the new Toyota Prius solar ventilation system, an optional feature for the hybrid car model introduced in Japan by Toyota Motor Corporation (hereafter “Toyota”) on May 18. The system ventilates the air inside of the car by using the electricity generated by the solar module [...]
Category: Energy, Mobility, Solar energy
With their ‘hydrogen highway’ Norway realizes hydrogen transportation infrastructure
17 May 2009
This week, Norway celebrated the official opening of the Norwegian hydrogen highway, HyNor, at a new hydrogen station at Økern in Oslo. HyNor was opened by Norway’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Liv Signe Navarsete
The HyNor project stretches for 580 kilometers from Oslo on the eastern coast to Stavanger on the western North Sea coast. [...]
Category: Mobility
New bicycle for city mobility: design and solar energy in one
14 May 2009
For those of you who have enough of traditional, heavy bicycles with lamps that never work, here is something new: the VANMOOF design bike, introduced this week in trendy Amsterdam by Dutch designers Sjoerd Smit and the brothers Taco and Ties Carlier.
What is special about this bicycle is the trendy design, the simplicity and the lighting [...]
Category: Mobility, Solar energy
Standard plug interface for electric vehicles
23 April 2009
Everyone has experienced the frustration of cell phone designers changing the recharging interface (wire-to-phone) on almost a yearly basis. It is as if the intent is to make more money from expensive replacement recharging units needed if the original becomes lost or left behind at a friend’s house.
With the future of transportation looking to be [...]
Category: Mobility
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