The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) is launching a tender for the purchase, through operational leasing, of 70 eight-meter electric buses. STB, the main public transport company in Bucharest and Ilfov county, has published an announcement in this regard on the Electronic Public Procurement System. The estimated total value of the contract is €50.48 million.
The E.ON Group is continuously investing in building new ultra-fast charging points across Europe. The company has ordered 4,500 additional fast charging stations from manufacturer alpitronic. They are to be used in customer-facing projects and public charging areas by 2025.
DSV Road, the third largest freight transport company in Romania, has appointed Mihai Teodorescu, the Country's General Manager of Road, as Sustainability Ambassador, aiming at the development of the Green Transport division. By the end of the year, the company estimates a doubling of the demand for green transport solutions in Romania compared to 2022.
Autonom, an integrated provider of mobility and financing services, has launched a solution dedicated to electric cars to address concerns associated with the adoption of electric vehicles, such as long-distance car autonomy, charging, maintenance costs, technological advancement, and resale value risk. Number three in the market of operational leasing and car rental companies ordered at the beginning of the year, with the help of an EIB loan of €32 million, 200 Tesla electric cars (Model 3 and Model Y).
ENGIE Romania launches a complete management solution for electric car charging stations. ENGIE Romania, in partnership with Etrel, a Landis+Gyr company, is launching a management solution for electric charging stations, available to individuals, companies, and public charging stations.
TAROM aims for a new record for the most efficient medium-courier flight, part of the "SkyTeam Sustainable Flight Challenge" competition. The TAROM company participates, for the second consecutive year, in the sustainable flight challenge organized by the SkyTeam alliance. The sustainable TAROM Bucharest-Madrid-Otopeni route, operated with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, meant a fuel economy of approximately 800 kg. Essentially, the fuel economy results in a significant reduction in CO2 emissions of over 2.5 tonnes.
Ford presents the E Tourneo Courier, a fully electric model, which will be produced in the Ford Otosan factory in Craiova. The E-Tourneo Courier will be available from the end of 2024. The car will have five seats.
ABB E-mobility supplied Constanta with its latest fast charging technology, powering the city's electric buses and accelerating its transition to emission-free mobility. Constanta installed five 300 kW HVC-PD (Heavy Vehicle Charger Pantograph Down) and twenty 50 kW Terra 54 HV fast charging stations to power its BYD electric bus fleet. All charging stations installed in Constanta are Cloud connected through ABB Ability™, facilitating remote software upgrades.
The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) wants to buy 100 electric buses through leasing. Buses must be 12 meters long and have a RAR type approval certificate (Romanian Auto Registry) or an approval certificate granted by the competent authorities of the member states of the European Union, in the M3 category.
26 electric buses purchased from Turkey, with European funds, will circulate on the roads of the cities of the Jiului Valley this year. The purchase contract was signed this week by the Hunedoara County Council and the Anadolu Automobil Rom company, and the cars must be delivered to Hunedoara County by October 31, 2023. The green line of electric buses will serve four routes totaling 125 kilometers each way -returned.
Electric cars will represent almost a fifth of the global market in 2023, according to the report of the International Energy Agency (IEA), dedicated to electric vehicles (EV). Sales of electric vehicles are expected to rise by 35% this year, reaching 14 million units, representing 18% of the market - up from just 4% in 2020.
Wizz Air has announced that it is investing £5 million in biofuels company Firefly, Wizz Air's first capital investment in sustainable aviation fuel research and development. Over 57 million tonnes of sewage sludge are produced in the UK each year, with the potential to produce 250,000 tonnes of sustainable SAF fuel.
The city of Craiova will have 30 new electric buses, which cost €19 million. The first bus will be brought to Craiova by the end of April, 23 will be brought in May, and the last 6 will arrive by the end of July.
Braşov City Hall is launching a tender for the construction of the largest garage for electric buses in Romania. The investment, carried out from European funds, exceeds RON141 million (€28.2 million), without VAT.
The 100 trolleybuses that Bucharest City Hall bought from Solaris will be delivered in the first quarter of next year. Trolleybuses have a minimum autonomy of 20 km. The operation guarantee will be at least 300,000 km from the date of commissioning or at least 5 years.
The report of the Romanian Automobile Manufacturers and Importers Association on car registrations in the first three months of 2023 shows strong new growth in the 100% electric car segment. In the first three months of the year, 36,592 new cars were registered, of which 3,130 are fully electric, 1,269 were plug-in hybrids, 2,981 were "full hybrids", 24,539 powered by gasoline, and 4,673 were diesel.
The EVconnect electric car charging network will exceed the threshold of 500 stations by the end of the year, and by 2025 the network will include at least 3,000 electric car charging stations. Last year, 166,244 charging sessions were registered on the EVconnect network, totaling 2.37 Gwh, which represents a reduction in the CO2 footprint of 1,989 tonnes.
The city of Constanta wants to "charge" its electric buses from the sun. The CT Bus SA company is consulting the market for the creation of a photovoltaic park that will increase the energy independence of the company. It would be used to power electric buses.
Romania reached 27,590 electric vehicles after as many electric cars were registered last year as in the last 10 years combined. Regarding the charging infrastructure, at the end of February, there were 3,389 public chargers in Romania.
Alstom presents the train that will be able to run on non-electrified sections with energy stored in batteries. Alstom and Irish Rail presented a life-size model of the X'Trapolis train, which will be able to run on non-electrified sections of the railway with the help of energy stored in batteries. Alstom's X'trapolis suburban modular train has been sold in over 6,000 units worldwide. Modern fleet of trains will increase the transport capacity and the pace of decarbonization will accelerate.
Bucharest City Hall buys 7 electric minibusses for RON 10.25 million (€2 million). The purpose of the purchase is to ensure an accessible, efficient, and ecological public passenger transport service and to improve the conditions for the use of non-motorized modes of transport in the administrative area of the established partnership, to reduce CO2 equivalent emissions from transport.
The number of electric cars registered in the Republic of Moldova by individuals doubled last year, to 700 units. The number of electric and hybrid cars exceeded 27,500 at the end of last year, according to data from the Agency for Energy Efficiency (AEE).
ProCredit Bank launches the ProGreen Auto Credit for individuals who want to purchase a new fully electric or plug-in hybrid car. The bank has entered into a partnership with EVconnect, one of the main providers of charging solutions for electric cars; customers benefit from free electric charges for the first 1,000 kilometers traveled.
ABB E-mobility co-develops optimal e-truck charging solution as part of the EU project. The NextETRUCK project is developing new e-concepts for trucks with medium freight haulage by the end of 2025 as part of the EU research program 'Horizon Europe'. The project aims to make those designated truck fleets emission-free, cost-efficient, and seamless to manage.
The company is working to advance its sustainability commitments in the four focus areas of sustainable innovation, climate, biodiversity, and inclusion, diversity and equity.
Greenhouse gas emissions generated by the European Union's economy totaled 897 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Visual Fan Company announced that it has signed a contract with Constanta Shipyard to install a 3.2 MWp photovoltaic plant.
EU is taking substantial measures to strengthen firefighting efforts and protect communities by deploying firefighters strategically and assembling a fleet of firefighting aircraft.
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