If Europe is to fall in line with the Paris Climate Agreement intention of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the region must significantly increase its rate of growth for offshore wind development, tripling it at the very least.
The European passenger plug-in market had a near-record month in June, with 28,000 registrations, up 54% over the same month last year. For the year through June, the market is up 30% this year, with the EV share now standing at a record 1.5%.
Swedish entrepreneur Gisli Gislason is the CEO of EVEN Electric. He says selling cars today is based on a model developed a century ago — a model that is inappropriate for selling electric cars. In order to promote his vision of fossil fuel free future, he is partnering with Microsoft Sweden to further develop a new a EV sales and trading platform designed exclusively for the needs of electric car buyers and sellers.
A new report has concluded that the North Sea should play a crucial role in the energy transition ahead of northwestern Europe, which could result in between €100 billion and €200 billion in economic value for neighboring regions in the transition away from fossil fuels.
Volvo has received an order for 13 electric buses for the Swedish city of Malmo. It is the largest electric bus order ever received by the company.
The Swedish state media organization SVT reports in an absurdly incorrect and misleading article “Electric vehicles may be the worst for the climate” that electric vehicles are bad for the environment, especially referring to “severe” issues regarding their lithium-ion batteries.
Ala Kazlova is the head of Marketing and IP at Swedish-based InnoVentum, and she’ll be speaking at our Cleantech Revolution event in Berlin. Learn more about this innovative leader in sustainable design.
Moving the EV juices around in Europe and tuning a broader audience into the enormous value and irreplaceable quality of driving and riding in electric vehicles is France’s Lionel Suissa and his Electrip team — a group of artists promoting electro-mobility. From late spring into early summer, a Nissan e-NV200 will revel in a 35-day European Electrip across 8 countries. Suissa will be leading the 35 day tour that starts in Barcelona and winds up in Norway. The precise purpose is to showcase the European Electric Corridor.
Sometimes the signs that lessons have been learned can be seen in the creative integration of the technological revolution we’ve witnessed this past decade. While many companies love to use the words “green” or “sustainable,” let’s admit it, not too many car manufacturers are particularly green (environmentally sustainable). It’s with great pleasure to see that Swedish Uniti and Siemens Nordics are partnering to build a fully automated sustainable car manufacturing facility using Siemens’ PLM software platform to try to move the industry forward.
While common public transit modalities, such as bus services, are often held up by proponents as a solution to everything from traffic congestion, to greenhouse gas emissions, to air pollution, etc., the reality is that the sheer inconvenience of these options in many locations means that user growth has generally remained flat.
