The Swedish city of Gothenburg is home to one of the largest and busiest ports in the world. Despite this, the city has set a rather ambitious climate goal for itself. With the help newly created urban zones that will serve as test beds for advanced sustainable technologies, Gothenburg plans to become a climate-neutral city by the year 2030. What’s more, they’ve enlisted Volvo to help.
The Radisson in Gothenburg, Sweden, has created a fun little promo video to lure in Tesla owners with the promise of easy valet-driven charging.
Volvo Cars has launched a new self-driving vehicle development program in Gothenburg, Sweden dubbed “Drive Me.” The program will provide participants with Volvo XC90s outfitted with the company’s newest driver-assistance tech. The vehicles will also be packed with various cameras and sensors to monitor driver behavior.
ABB, an electric vehicle charging solutions giant (amongst a great many other things), has received an order for two 450 kW OppCharge fast-charging stations from Göteborg Energi and its partners Volvo Buses and Västtrafik, according to recent reports.
An electric bus charging station based on the new open OppCharge interface has been installed in Arendal, Gothenburg (Sweden) by Volvo Buses and ABB, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.
The electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden, has now been in service for over a year. How successful has the route been during that time? Very successful. Drivers and passengers have had very good things to say about the electric bus route, apparently. During the first year of service, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Free concerts put on by children from the Side by Side by El Sistema international music camp are being performed today and tomorrow (June 16 and 17) on electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica and EV Obsession. … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The ongoing ElectriCity electric bus pilot program in Gothenburg, Sweden, has turned some of its buses into Christmas decorations/celebrations of a sort, going by a recent press release. As one can see, the light decorations are quite obvious, but there’s actually more to it — … [continued]
To promote and showcase the advantages of sustainable public transport, riders on Gothenburg’s bus route 55, which is now serviced by three emissions-free and renewably-powered electric buses, got a few surprise acoustic concerts when they got on board, thanks to a campaign from Sweden’s ElectriCity initiative. In the first live … [continued]
Originally published on Kompulsa. News on the street is that Volvo Cars has purchased Polestar Performance AB and Polestar Holding AB for an undisclosed sum, excluding their racing division. Polestar is a company that tunes cars to improve performance. Polestar AB carries out performance activities, and Polestar Holding AB owns … [continued]
