Mobility | 22 January, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Galati City Hall buys 20 Solaris electric buses
Galati City Hall will buy 20 Solaris electric buses.
Galati City Hall will buy 20 Solaris electric buses.
Over 1.1 million cars were registered in Romania in 2023, up 3% compared to the previous year.
IFC is providing a €35 million loan to Karsan.
Allview, the Romanian brand in the electronics industry, announced the official launch of the CityZEN model, an electric car primarily dedicated to urban traffic and short extra-urban trips.
The mayor of Brasov, Allen Coliban, has announced that he has signed the works contract for the largest garage for electric buses.
PepsiCo has announced that 80% of its fleet has transitioned to hybrid vehicles, marking significant progress in line with the company's goal to achieve net-zero emissions in its global operations by 2040.
Mihai Chirica, the mayor of the city of Iași, has announced that 18 trams and 25 electric buses will be purchased with funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
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.
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.
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.
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).
51% of Romanian entrepreneurs see sustainability as a way to reduce operational costs, yet the same proportion say implementation is too expensive, according to a new study by BRD Groupe Société Générale. Conducted among micro and small-to-medium enterprises, the research outlines how Romanian entrepreneurs perceive the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to sustainable business models.
The Annual Water Report, based on over 13.5 billion liters of monitored water usage across 5,370 properties in 36 countries, reveals that 67% of properties experience water leakage yearly. With rising water scarcity, increasing tariffs, aging infrastructure, and stricter regulations, property owners are under growing pressure to better understand their water consumption.
Romanian developer Iulius has launched Europe's largest private bioremediation project, investing €29 million to clean 38 hectares of contaminated land in downtown Constanța. The project will transform the former Oil Terminal platform into an integrated urban regeneration complex worth over €800 million.
The European Union is at risk of missing a key United Nations deadline for submitting updated climate targets, as internal disagreements among member states delay a final decision on emissions goals for 2040.
Solar power has rapidly risen to become Hungary's second-largest source of electricity, overtaking gas for the first time in 2024.
