A display of BYD bus scale models, including London EV buses, 90% of which are either new or run on BYD electric platforms. Photo for CleanTechnica by Raymond Tribdino.
In the third and final* article in this miniseries on BYD’s monthly sales, we’re looking beyond passenger vehicles and jumping into large commercial electric vehicles. If you missed our previous two articles, see this one on BYD’s overall plugin vehicle sales and this one on BYD’s vehicle sales beyond California. … [continued]
Hydrogen fuel cell buses and trucks are zero emission electric vehicles, but they need green hydrogen to complete the sustainability loop.
EV battery swapping — in one form or another — could finally come to the US, if the startup Revoy succeeds in pitching its swap-in, swap-out retrofit for Class 8 diesel trucks with the potential for up to 90% savings on fuel depending on the terrain and route.
Europe’s 69 e-fuel projects could deliver zero-emission fuels to shipping by 2033, but only six are operational. Regulatory measures would help more and bigger projects to get off the ground. Europe is home to 69 e-fuel projects that could serve the maritime sector but only six are operational, T&E’s updated … [continued]
CleanTechnica readers were among the first to be told about the prospect of electric semi-truck trailers to be built at the Volvo plant in Wacol, near Brisbane, Queensland. Volvo Group Australia has just announced that the first units have rolled off its production line in Wacol. “These are the first … [continued]
Germany’s subsidy can reduce the operator-facing cost of an illustrative €425,000 hydrogen truck toward €205,000, below an unsubsidized battery-electric truck at about €300,000.
Germany’s latest hydrogen truck programme attracted 526 applications seeking €455 million from a €220 million funding pool. That has been presented as evidence that hydrogen freight is finally finding a market. A more revealing fact sits inside the programme design: Germany is offering purchase support for hydrogen trucks while battery-electric … [continued]
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman CleanTechnica allows comments, and there are always great comments by readers, as well as the obligatory smattering of naysaying trolls. We thought we might collate and comment on the good stuff that came in on our article “China’s Electric Truck Moment Has Arrived — … [continued]
Swaptopus is Europe’s entry point into a larger Qiji platform linking standardized truck batteries, swap stations, operating data, finance and route-energy dispatch.
Swaptopus is easy to misread as a quirky name for another electric-truck infrastructure project. It is a newly formed joint venture between Octopus Energy and CATL, created to develop automated battery-swapping hubs for heavy trucks across Europe. Octopus is a UK-founded energy and technology group whose activities span electricity retail, … [continued]
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman If the electric car was the opening chapter of China’s transport transition, battery-electric heavy trucks are the next — and it is now moving from promise to industrial reality. And this is happening inside the fastest energy transition in human history. For global oil, … [continued]
China’s electric-truck buildout targets the high-use freight diesel market oil forecasts still rely on.
Oil forecasts that still depend on sustained Chinese road-fuel growth now have a heavy-truck problem. Passenger electric vehicles have already weakened the gasoline story, but freight diesel is the more important system denominator. Commercial trucks operate for longer hours, carry heavier loads and burn far more fuel per vehicle than … [continued]
