The Fiat Ducato dominates the light commercial vehicle market. Now Fiat has presented an electric variant as an alternative to the combustion engines. The new Fiat E-Ducato will be on the market in the next few months. With features...
Commercial vehicles
Posted Jun 29, 2020
Posted Jun 20, 2020
The eSprinter will be available as a van with a gross vehicle weight of 3,500 kilograms in a high-roof version. Its electric drive drives the front wheels and, like the entry-level diesel unit, produces 85 kW with a torque of up to 300 Newton meters...
Posted Jun 16, 2020
DPD Switzerland has ordered a purely electrically powered Futuricum Logistics 18E truck from the Swiss company Designwerk Products AG in Winterthur. The Logistics 18E electric truck from Designwerk has a range of up to 760 kilometres...
Posted May 19, 2020
The new Toyota PROACE Electric van will be launched in European markets from the fall of 2020. The range includes three body lengths and two different battery sizes, with up to 330 kilometres range. Its clever...
Posted May 15, 2020
Electrification is underway at Peugeot and more generally within the PSA group. After the 100% electric version of the new 208, it is a utility van, Peugeot e-Expert, that takes the path of the zero-emission propulsion. Like Opel...
Posted May 09, 2020
Minsk Automobile Plant has released the third generation of electric buses. It is assumed that they will combine the advantages of trolleybuses and public transport. With the help of the new model, the Belarusian manufacturer...
Posted Apr 29, 2020
Opel introduced the Vivaro-e electric van model which has 136 hp and 260 Nm. Commercial fleet operators have just received a new offer: an electric Opel Vivaro-e! The German company made its debut in the electric utility segment...
Posted Apr 01, 2020
Japanese carmaker Toyota and its commercial vehicle subsidiary Hino Motors is developing a fuel cell truck based on the Hino Profia. It uses technology that Toyota has developed for the next generation of the Mirai. According to a Toyota...
Posted Mar 28, 2020
Volkswagen Trucks presents e-BULLI, a fully electric vehicle that produces zero emissions on the road. The concept vehicle is equipped with drive system components from Volkswagen's latest electric vehicle and is based on a T1 Samba...
Posted Mar 16, 2020
Renault Trucks will begin mass production of the D ZE and D Wide ZE electric trucks at its Blainville-sur-Orne, Normandy plant this month. The plant was expanded for the assembly of the e-distribution trucks. This start of...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is now accepting pre-orders for its electrical construction machinery, specifically for the compact excavator ECR25 Electric and the compact wheel loader L25 Electric...
Posted Feb 12, 2020
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) will deliver a total of 420 e-Crafters to Chronopost (a member of the La Poste group) over the next two years. For Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) this it is the largest single e-Crafter...
Posted Feb 06, 2020
Renault Trucks has signed a contract with the Carlsberg Group for the delivery of 20 fully electric 26-ton D-type ZE trucks. The electric trucks are to be delivered to the Swiss brewery Feldschlösschen later this year. The ...
Posted Dec 12, 2019
Cooperation partners MagniX and Harbor Air have announced the successful first flight of a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver seaplane converted to electric propulsion. The declared goal of the duo is to successively electrify all 42...
Posted Dec 05, 2019
Mexico City has commissioned 63 battery-powered trolleybuses from Chinese manufacturer Yutong. 40 of the buses have already been delivered, the remaining 23 will follow in December. These are O-buses that also have a battery to...
Posted Nov 07, 2019
The Opel Vivaro-e is the fully electric variant of the light commercial van from Opel. It will hit the market next year. As part of its PACE! Strategic plan, Opel will develop eight electrified cars by 2021. At the same time, among those eight...
Posted Nov 02, 2019
The first major order for electric buses has been delivered to the Hamburger Hochbahn after about one year. The new fleet is already in service. Just over a year ago, Hamburger Hochbahn presented its first fully electric bus to the public...
Posted Sep 20, 2019
The Amazon distribution giant has pledged to comply with the Paris Agreement against climate change signed in 2015 ten years ahead of schedule and has ordered 100,000 fully electric vans, which will be manufactured by Rivian....
Posted Jul 22, 2019
It is designed to transport visitors, staff, athletes or people with special accessibility needs. Toyota launches the first vehicle of the support program for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: an electric shuttle that will make transport...
Posted Jul 08, 2019
For the 20th anniversary of the VW subsidiary in California, the German carmaker has shown the legendary Type 2 T1 as an electric minibus. The VW Type 20 is just a concept. Type 20 is an electric minibus based on the iconic Volkswagen Type 2 T1 that...
Posted Jun 27, 2019
MAN presented in its facilities in Madrid its new 100% electric MAN eTGE van. With a range close to 173 kilometers and a payload of approximately one ton, the 100% electric van is especially for urban distribution. The company...
Posted Jun 19, 2019
Fiat Ducato: the best seller of Fiat Professional commercial vehicles is renewed with the model year 2020, which introduces an updated design, more technology for safety and onboard connectivity, an updated gearbox with a 9-speed automatic...
Posted Jun 05, 2019
Skai Flying Car is the mobility solution from BMW and Alaka'i Technologies that differs from the rest of flying cars that we have seen to date by one feature: it is powered by hydrogen fuel cells . It is an aircraft equipped with...
Posted May 30, 2019
Hyundai Motor has introduced its first electrically powered double-decker bus. From when and in which countries the new 70-seater is to be sold, is not yet known. The development of the vehicle began in 2017 and was funded by the...
Posted May 24, 2019
One of the noisiest, biggest and dirtiest vehicles that have been created is undergoing a hopeful transformation. And is that more and more companies are aiming to develop electric garbage trucks, and even autonomous as Volvo has done. Mack Trucks,...
Posted Apr 18, 2019
Renault presents the experimental vehicle of a light commercial electric vehicle for urban traffic delivery: Renault EZ-FLEX. The EZ-FLEX comes with a purely electric drive and full network integration. A dozen models will soon go...
Posted Apr 04, 2019
The Chinese company BYD has presented the K12A, an electric bus with a total length of 27 meters, which ensures that it is the "longest electric bus in the world". The K12A is the world's first 27-m...
Posted Apr 03, 2019
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started its transition towards electric mobility. The German manufacturer has very ambitious plans for the coming years. The first one is already here. This is the new Volkswagen e-Crafter, the all...
Posted Mar 25, 2019
European aerospace firm Airbus has now presented the electric air taxi CityAirbus in Ingolstadt, Germany, which will become a testing ground for testing this transport technology. Ingolstadt is a member of the Urban Air Mobility (...
Posted Mar 21, 2019
The Geneva Motor Show has hosted the global presentation of the Mercedes EQV, a premium electric minivan. The electric passenger minivan EQV will be the first for the Mercedes in its class. The brand has declared that the final...