The road to zero emissions from road traffic is becoming very clear now. That the solution is battery electric vehicles (BEV) is now accepted even at most legacy carmakers. Only Toyota and friends still believe in a main role for hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) technology. A few others, like Renault, … [continued]
Electric buses are flowing across Europe, with record order after record order. Finland now has a fresh record for electric bus orders within its borders, with transit agency Nobina ordering 106 electric buses from BYD.
Exponential electric vehicle adoption has been at play in Norway for several years. I remember attending EVS27 in Barcelona back in late 2013 and the hottest news of previous months had been Norway achieving stunning EV market share milestones. That October, plug-in vehicles had risen to 8% market share! Electric cars had been the top selling cars in the country two months in a row — the Tesla Model S in September and the Nissan LEAF in October. The market share had been 7% in September. 7% and 8% market share were figures no other country would touch for years.
These northern European countries continue to be at the forefront of electric vehicle (EV) adoption — electric cars, buses, boats, and trucks — and they have also started to tackle the final frontier, that of the demanding electric aviation industry.
Originally published on GAS2. When I was a kid, I spent hundreds of hours playing with my Lionel train set. I know exactly how big it was because it fit on a standard size Ping Pong table. In Hamburg, Germany, the world famous Miniature Museum has an electric train set … [continued]
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. Today’s Graph of the Day comes courtesy of The Energy Collective, and gives an interesting perspective of the level of renewable energy in the electricity systems of countries across the globe: the lighter the green, the higher the percentage of renewables. But appearances … [continued]
