Alina Oprea
| 7 September, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Sibiu County to buy 13 more electric school minibusses
The Sibiu County Council requests non-refundable money for 13 more electric school minibusses.
The Sibiu County Council requests non-refundable money for 13 more electric school minibusses.
e-Mobility Rentals has launched a solution which includes microelectric vehicles that operate on universal batteries that can be exchanged at any swap station within the e-Mobility Rentals network.
According to the latest EU data, the car market continues its upward trend, with sales surging in July for the twelfth consecutive month of growth.
By 2030, Romania will be ready to use electric trucks for the transport of goods at the national level, not just at the local level.
ATP Trucks Automobile, a Romanian company producing road transport vehicles and people, delivered the first batch of 10 ATP Bus electric buses to the city of Vișeu de Sus.
More than €52 million will be allocated to support the purchase of 37 electric trains in Romania.
The Minister of the Environment, Waters, and Forests, Mircea Fechet, announced the launch of the program for the purchase of electric, hybrid, and compressed natural gas-powered minibusses.
Schneider Electric, together with Invest Dej and Pluton IC (Ukraine), modernized the public transport infrastructure with trolleybuses in the city of Vaslui.
The Prahova County Council is organizing an open auction through which it wants to buy non-polluting electric minibusses for the estimated amount of RON 30.17 million (€6.03 million) without VAT.
A study carried out by Bolt shows that the company's scooters helped to avoid more than 2.4 million kg of carbon dioxide emissions in 17 countries in Europe in 2022.
Alstom and Central Saxony's transport authority, Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen (VMS), presented a new battery-powered train developed by Alstom in Chemnitz, Germany.
The Ilfov County Council has obtained new non-refundable funding through which it will build 15 charging stations for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, in eight Ilfov towns and municipalities.
The Bihor County Council approved the feasibility study for the location of four recharging stations for electric vehicles.
Mehedinti County wants to buy 30 electric minibusses to transport students.
Five public charging stations for electric cars will be set up in several locations in Dambovita County.
44 new electric buses have arrived in Timisoara, announces the mayor of the city, Dominic Fritz.
Alstom has signed a contract to supply 40 Coradia Stream high-capacity multiple electric trains to Nahverkehrsverbund Schleswig-Holstein (NAH.SH), the integrated transport association that organizes rail passenger transport in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Cluj-based company Promelek XXI aims to sell, by the end of the current year, 400 charging stations for 100% electric or plug-in hybrid cars.
Dambovita County is buying 31 new electric minibusses for the transportation of students.
OMV Petrom contributes to the development of the regional network of ultra-fast recharging for electric cars as part of a project that aims to install more than 400 points along the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
The local authorities in Brasov continue the program of greening the fleet of buses and trolleybuses and transforming public transport into the main mobility solution in the municipality and in the metropolitan area.
The town halls of Ploiești, Oradea, and Iași launched tenders for the purchase of 87 electric buses.
MEPs approved new rules on more alternative fuel stations for cars and trucks, simple and easy recharging, and on cleaner maritime fuels.
The European Commission is today proposing measures to make freight transport more efficient and more sustainable, by improving rail infrastructure management, offering stronger incentives for low-emission lorries, and better information on freight transport greenhouse gas emissions.
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).
