Seasides & Volcanoes — Electric Van Road Trip, Part 3
This article continues our series on an electric van road trip around Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe (with a gang of motorcycles on the flanks and sometimes in the van).
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Convincing Mom To Get The Pacifica PHEV
I have 4 kids, so you might think I’d consider a minivan, but I’m just not a minivan person. I don’t have anything against them, but they’re just not for me. At all. My mom, on the other hand, loves them. She’s owned a number of different vans and minivans over the years. Her last two vans were Dodge Grand Caravans. She really likes them — enough, apparently, to go for three in a row.
First EV Built In Australia Is No Tesla Killer
Last year, EV sales in Australia were 0.2% of total sales. A tiny startup near Brisbane hopes to change all that but could use just a smidgen of help from the federal government.
Tesla & Mercedes Talking About Electric Van Collaboration
Mercedes and Tesla are talking about working together to bring electric delivery vans to market, in a move that might rekindle the romance between the two companies that goes back almost a decade.
Daimler Delivers Electric Cargo Truck To Penske
An all-electric EM2 medium-duty commercial cargo truck was delivered by Daimler Trucks North America to Penske in Los Angeles recently to fulfill Daimler’s promise to make one available to a customer in 2018.
China × Cleantech — November
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our November 2018 edition. As the year starts to close, we are still getting interesting developments from China, but we have to cover the numerous developments in November before getting to those. In order to aggregate and summarize the November highlights, here’s another edition of our monthly China × Cleantech feature, also published over on the “Future Trends” section of our website. See last month’s edition for more.
UK Set To Have Thousands More Electric Vans
Led by Global Action Plan in partnership with Engie, the UK Clean Van Commitment is an initiative which aims to get 2,400 new electric vans in operation by 2020, and for 18,000 new electric vans to replace diesel vans by 2028.
My Short Q&A With Elon Musk, Tesla Gigafactory Europe, Electric Vans (Titillating Tesla Tidbits #2)
Jacek Fior, Tomek Gać, and I got together for another Titillating Tesla Tidbits chat. Check out the video or read the summary in text below the video to see if you really truly want to hit play. Head on over to Facebook if you’d rather watch and share there.
WB Mason Shares Its Lessons Learned From Its Workhorse PHEV Delivery Vans
John DiLuna, corporate fleet manager for WB Mason, says he and his drivers have learned a lot from driving 4 Workhorse E-GEN plug-in hybrid delivery vans over the past 6 months. Read on to learn more.
Ryder Reserves 500 Chanje Electric Vans & Prepares To Scale
Ryder has announced that it has placed a reservation for 500 fully electric medium-duty panel vans from California-based Chanje Energy. As the exclusive sales channel and service provider for Chanje’s medium-duty vehicles, the reservation for 500 of Chanje’s vans will be executed as downstream lease agreements are finalized.
