As part of a new initiative meant help improve air quality in the region, Volkswagen has now delivered 50 new all-electric e-Golfs to residents in Hamburg, according to a new press release.
MOIA, the ride hailing division of Volskwagen, has unveiled its new electric van capable of transporting up to 6 people in comfort. Customers can use an app to schedule pickups and drop offs.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been researching and developing the concept of converting energy to heat in rock-fill for energy storage to combine with wind energy, and the company has this week begun construction of its first real scale project in Hamburg, Germany.
The world’s largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant — intended to utilize “excess” surges of grid electricity for the production of hydrogen — has been inaugurated in Hamburg-Neuhof (Germany) by H&R Ölwerke Schindler, a subsidiary of H&R KGaA.
I spoke to Ardo Reinsalu, CEO of Stigo, for an interview about what is hailed as the “world’s fastest folding electric scooter (e-scooter),” a scooter I recently wrote about after I discovered it. We can’t wait to test ride this welcome solution to “last-mile” transportation needs.
The G20, at the moment, is very much a G19 — and it appears Donald Trump couldn’t care less.
We continue to line up wonderful, world-leading speakers for our coming Cleantech Revolution Tour conference in Berlin and Wrocław. We have 5 new blockbuster presenters to announce today.
Auto manufacturers should be held to a minimum electric vehicle sales quota, the head of Germany’s Federal Environment Agency, Maria Krautzenberger, recently argued in an interview with the German paper Die Zeit.
Using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “worst case” scenario (RCP8.5) as the baseline, new research has determined that Europe’s coastal cities may be facing as much as $40 billion a year in associated economic losses by 2100.
Institutions in Hamburg are proposing to build a large underground thermal heat storage system that could supply roughly a quarter of the city’s heating needs with waste heat from industrial and power plants. If successful, it would make Vattenfall’s plans to realise a CO2-neutral district heating network superfluous. It could also serve as an example for other cities.
