The general mayor of the capital, Nicuşor Dan, has announced that 100 electric busses have arrived at the STB Bujoreni depot and are to be put into circulation.
Bozankaya, the manufacturer of trams in Iași and Timisoara, has delivered the first driverless metro produced in Turkey, in Kocaeli.
Investors' enthusiasm for EV companies is fading, says eToro's analyst for Romania, Bogdan Maioreanu.
The authorities in Cluj have announced that they would buy 34 electric school minibusses for the students in the county.
Alstom has announced is investing over €50 million to establish a state-of-the-art depot in Bucharest, for the maintenance of the new Coradia Stream electric passenger trains.
OMV will start building a network of 28 ultra-fast electric car charging stations on the country's high-traffic routes by the end of the year.
The Timis County Council has given the green light to purchase electric minibusses for schoolchildren.
The vice mayor of the capital, Stelian Bujduveanu, has announced that the first 51 BMC electric buses have arrived in Romania.
The electric car battery recycling sector in the European Union (EU) will require €9 billion investment to expand capacity by 2035 to keep pace with increased production, according to the “EU recycling market” report by strategy&, PwC's global strategy practice.
The first Romanian hybrid locomotive built 100% in Romania, has started operating in Curtici, in Arad County, at the intermodal terminal of a logistics company.
The first installment of electric buses purchased through the Green Line project has arrived in Valea Jiului.
MEPs back new rules to reduce road transport emissions.
EVconnect, the network of charging stations for electric vehicles and a partner of EVBox, has installed another 20 fast charging stations in gas stations in the west of Romania.
12,000 electric cars have been registered in Bulgaria to date, which represents over 50% growth compared to 7,800 registered in 2022, announced Boryana Koleva, chief expert in the "National Transport Policy" Directorate of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Bulgaria's western municipality of Kyustendil has said it launched a 5.16 million levs ($2.8 million/€2.6 million) tender for the delivery of electric buses and their charging stations.
FNM has presented, together with the manufacturer Alstom, a global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, the Coradia Stream train powered by hydrogen.
Gebrüder Weiss is doubling its electric road fleet.
The City Hall of the Capital is to install 50 recharging stations for electric vehicles, with two recharging points each, on 11 sites in the City of Bucharest.
BRD Groupe Société Générale, in cooperation with Eldrive Romania, started this month the first phase of a pilot project to install charging stations for electric cars at the branches in Galati and Timișoara.
The share of electric cars in the European car market exceeded, for the first time, the 20% threshold in August, according to the figures published by The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA).
A pilot hydrogen-powered bus has been tested in the past week through the streets of Kaunas and Vilnius, in Lithuania, according to ceenergynews.com.
Eldrive Romania and Cosmopolis have put into use 11 charging stations for the residents and visitors of the residential complex, where 14 electric vehicles can be charged simultaneously.
70% of jet fuels at EU airports will have to be green by 2050.
Botoșani County Council announces that three electric school minibusses purchased through a program of the Ministry of Development, have arrived in Botosani County.
Microsoft has achieved its goal of matching 100% of its annual global electricity consumption with renewable energy, reaching the milestone five years ahead of its 2025 target. The achievement supports the company's commitment to become carbon negative by 2030.
The recent weakening of the CSRD may have some real estate developers cheering the compliance rollbacks, but the consequences could be complicated. A new research survey examines how EU real estate firms are navigating changes to the CSRD, and what that could mean for upcoming SFDR revisions.
Waldevar Energy has begun construction on two utility-scale photovoltaic parks for Doral Energy in Tudor Vladimirescu (Brăila County) and Ștefan Vodă (Călărași County), Romania. The projects will deliver 14 MWp of installed capacity using around 25,000 photovoltaic panels.
Lidl Romania has published its eighth sustainability report for the 2024 financial year, announcing accelerated progress in reducing environmental impact. The retailer has achieved its international 2030 target for transitioning to natural refrigerants, with these now used in 100% of logistics centres and 81.7% of stores, compared to the original goal of 100% of logistics centres and 40% of stores. The company has also increased its green energy usage to 80% of total consumption.
The European Union has reached a provisional agreement to reduce the scope and stringency of two major ESG regulatory frameworks: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
