Dutch supermarket chain starts roll out of extensive EV charging network
Dutch energy company Eneco has started the installation of EV charge points at Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands and Belgium. It aims to have completed at least 2,000 connections by 2025 Over the next year the partnership plans to install 120...
Nissan diverts development funding from internal combustion engines
Nissan has said it will end development of new internal combustion engines in all its major markets except the US and focus its resources on electric vehicles, becoming the first major Japanese automaker to do so. Nissan spends over $4 billion a year on research...
East London heliport acquisition integral to Skyport’s commercial air taxi plans
Skyports, the UK-based developer and operator of vertiports for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, has announced its acquisition of a heliport in east London. The facility, previously known as the Falcon Heliport, will continue its existing operations under the new name of Skyports...
Indian EV manufacturer sets up global design centre in UK
Indian electric vehicle manufacturer Ola Electric has announced plans to invest £100m into a new global centre for advanced engineering and vehicle design based in Coventry. The Coventry facility, Ola Futurfoundry, will be staffed with over 200 designers and automotive engineers and will partner with...
JV develops retail hydrogen refuelling network in Germany, Austria and Denmark
US-headquartered energy, manufacturing and logistics company Phillips 66 and Swiss renewables company H2 Energy Europe have formed a 50-50 joint venture to develop up to 250 retail hydrogen refuelling stations across Germany, Austria and Denmark by 2026. The agreement is through Phillips 66’s UK subsidiary...
Joby and SK Telecom plan to introduce aerial ride-sharing in South Korea
California-based Joby Aviation is partnering with SK Telecom (SKT), one of South Korea’s largest telecommunications companies, to introduce aerial ride-sharing services in the country. The agreement supports the Korean Urban Air Mobility Roadmap, introduced by the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in...
Detroit gets first US public EV inductive road pilot
Michigan’s Department of Transportation has selected Electreon, the Israeli provider of wireless charging for electric vehicles on the go, to build a wireless in-road charging pilot in Detroit. The mile long test section will be the first wireless charging infrastructure on a public road in...
TuSimple picks up first customer for its driverless trucking service
US autonomous driving tech company TuSimple has announced that rail haulier Union Pacific Railroad will become its first customer on its fully automated trucking route in Arizona. The announcement comes little more than a month after TuSimple confirmed it had successfully trialled an unmanned 80-mile...
Luxembourg extends free public transport into France
Luxembourg has launched a pilot project providing free public transport for cross border-workers living in France. The Grand Duchy is the most car-owning country in the European Union, with, according to the national statistical agency Statec, nine out of ten Luxembourgers owning a car. As...
Consortium tests autonomous logistics distribution at UK car plant
An electric Terberg trailer tractor, retrofitted with autonomous technology, is set to be remotely test driven as part of the £4.9m British government funded 5G Connected and Automated Logistics (CAL) trial. The Terberg YT202, which is designed for moving trailers in distribution centres, transport depots...
