July 30th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
It's amazing what the threat of massive fines can do for automakers. The European Union has been getting serious about the need for automakers to clean up their fleets, and all of a sudden we're getting a lot more vehicle models and automakers are actually trying to sell them!
July 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A few days ago, we published an article about Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), a major UK delivery company, hitting its 2020 electric vehicle (EV) adoption target 5 months early. That announcement was very uplifting ... until the second sentence. As it turns out, the 2020 target was to make 10% of its fleet electric vehicles
July 27th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
This massive infrastructure bill is the result of the work of many committees in the House. The centerpiece is the surface transportation bill (sometimes known as the highway bill) that gets passed about every 5 years. Then other legislative pieces got added, including adding tax incentives for electric vehicles and clean energy. The result is a good bill that will pass out of the House — the question, as always, is what will happen in the Senate
July 25th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), a UK delivery service, has smashed its EV goals 5 months early, with over 700 electric vehicles now on the road
July 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Volta Trucks, a Scandinavian startup, has teased a zero-emission, fully electric delivery vehicle with typically slick and stylish Scandinavian design, named the Volta Zero. The vehicle will be launched this fall
June 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following our end-of-month 7 bonus electric car & SUV stories, 5 bonus battery stories, and 7 bonus solar + storage stories, here are 7 bonus electric bus & electric truck stories that we didn't have time to cover as standalone articles but didn't want to skip completely
June 21st, 2020 | by Susanna Schick
The city of Santa Monica’s main business district has been chosen as the pilot for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s new Neighborhood Zero Emissions Delivery Zone. The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has put out an RFI (request for information) to companies far and wide who may have the technological solutions they need to solve this challenge
May 22nd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
ASKO, the largest grocery retailer in Norway, has chosen ABB to hook up its electric delivery trucks with the power cables they need to recharge on a daily basis
February 6th, 2020 | by Andy Miles
In the UK we have many traditions going back for centuries. Just as we have a Royal Navy dating back to Tudor times, we also have the Royal Mail dating back to those times — 1512 to be precise. Though, it was indeed royal back then, in the sense of being for the exclusive use of Henry VIII and his agents for matters of state. Charles II, the Stuart king, established the General Post Office as a public service in
October 7th, 2019 | by Tomek Gać
Parcel and Postal Expo is the largest event for courier services in Europe and it is taking place in Amsterdam this year. What is different is the new emphasis placed on e-mobility — not only EVs, but also charging infrastructure. Having followed the trade show for a few years now, the shift is visible and e-mobility has never played such a significant role here before. My role has also changed over the years and I am in Amsterdam today with two of my clients that I have the pleasure to provide with consulting services on EV solutions — Voltia and InPost. The big question: what’s on the horizon for electrified postal services
March 20th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Electric vehicle company Arcimoto has reshaped its two-seat Fun Utility Vehicle into a single-seat delivery vehicle, dubbed the Deliverator
September 20th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Volkswagen makes electric trucks? Well, yes, it does — or it will. Not only that, but Ambev Brewery in Brazil has ordered a whopping 1,600 of them
December 20th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
Here's another fleet owner's way to switch over to electricity — the Workhorse N-GEN, which our own Steve Hanley covered recently here. When it comes to electric options, better options, 2017 has also been good to fleet owners. They haven't been left alone and new players have jumped into the market, such as the revolutionary Chanje platform, helping them to switch over to electricity. After exploring Chanje, I wanted to dive into another workhorse — pun intended — the Workhorse N-
December 20th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
In part 1 of this Chanje electric van review, we looked at the Chanje electric van's background and some of its features. In this second part, we take a look at what Chanje brings to the table for fleet owners if they turn from simple vehicles operators to energy management and vehicle coordination. Chanje is a game changer, and this time, pun intended
December 20th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Renault Kangoo ZE — the current iteration of which (the Kangoo ZE 33) possesses a 124 mile real-world range and is available in a number of different body types meant to suit different uses — won the "Green Award" at the 2018 What Van? Awards that took place in London on December 13th
December 19th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
Over at CleanTechnica, we're always excited to see something new, something smart, and something designed clean from the ground up. Enter center stage, the Chanje electric van. The Chanje electric van is a serious fleet industry game changer in more ways than seems obvious
December 3rd, 2017 | by James Ayre
One of the parts of the auto industry that is best suited to near-term electrification is the delivery vehicle/van segment. Such vehicles — whether inner city parcel delivery trucks, produce trucks, mail delivery vehicles, bakery vans, etc. — generally don't travel much on a daily basis, and often follow very reliable usage patterns within a strict service area, so there are often no fundamental reasons for the operators of such vehicles to not go electric
November 25th, 2017 | by James Ayre
A coalition comprised of 13 different environmental groups advocating for "clean" transportation solutions in the US has sent an open letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) calling for the next-generation delivery vehicles (NGDV) design that's chosen to be a plug-in electric
October 24th, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
City, state, and other government vehicles have much to gain from the outstanding technological advances coming from Nissan and other leaders in the electric vehicle transition. That also means battery leadership. As one unique application of lithium-ion batteries, they can help soften the blow of a medical emergency. They can provide extra help in remote or disturbed areas without electricity and in dire circumstances
March 31st, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
Do you ever wonder what shape the world might be in if electric cars had not been replaced by gas cars so long ago? It has been over 100 years after the legendary London department store Harrods first added an electric van to its fleet. Harrods is now returning to electric vehicle technology. The company has selected the 100% electric Nissan e-NV200 delivery van as the latest addition to its delivery fleet
