Uruguay, along with Chinese automobile manufacturer BYD, CTS Auto S.A., and Buquebus, have signed a contract to bring electric buses to the South American country. The electric busses are expected to arrive by the end of 2012. The Uruguayan government is targeting to have over 500+ electric buses on … [continued]
Six BYD electric buses have been ordered for the city of Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands. Reportedly, this will give the city “Europe’s cleanest bus fleet.” Here are some more details from a BYD news release: An island which is home to the Netherlands’ first National Park is about to launch … [continued]
Some more top clean transportation news from around the internet: BMW, Siemens, Daimler, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and many others are working together on joint research project called Visio.M to “develop concepts to produce electric cars that are efficient, safe, and inexpensive,” BMW reports. “Lead manager of the project is BMW AG. … [continued]
Pike Research has just come out with a new market research report, “Electric Vehicle Batteries.” The report, which ranks what it thinks are the top 10 Lithium-ion battery companies, finds that market revenue for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for transportation (EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) “will grow over 700%, from $2.0 billion annually in … [continued]
Can you guess where the largest electric bus and electric taxi fleet is? If you guessed Kalamazoo, Michigan, I’m sorry, but you’re wrong (why you would have guessed that, I don’t know). However, if you guessed Shenzhen City, China, you were right on point (and I guess you probably knew … [continued]
China, going big in another cleantech category? Who would’ve guessed it? BYD, a large Chinese manufacturer of automobiles and rechargeable batteries, has teamed up with the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and constructed what they think is the world’s largest battery energy storage station. “This large utility-scale project, located in … [continued]
BYD Co Ltd is on schedule to enter the growing EV market with the E6 crossover in Q2 of 2012. E6 represents the big battery solution to EV range. Other solutions…
