Urban Mobility
ALMERE, Netherlands, November 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Smartphone-opened lock makes sustainable bike-sharing schemes possible The Mobilock electronic bike lock, which opens via a smartphone app, has become the first in the world to receive an ART four-star quality standard. This officially makes the lock the safest bike lock in the world. For Mobilock, this recognition is the starting signal to
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Oversubscribed by over 200%, raised over €3 million on Crowdfunding Seedrs. When Amsterdam-based electric scooter start-up Bolt Mobility set out to raise money via equity crowdfunding to make ‘the Dutch Tesla on two wheels’, it asked the public for 1.5 million euros. But over 2,000 investors across the United Kingdom and the Netherlands gave it double that amount when its
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DHL Express pilot project launched in The Hague, with modified StreetScooter and Nissan e-NV200 for last-mile delivery. Project builds on successful pilots with DHL Cubicycle cargo delivery bicycles in Utrecht, Netherlands and Frankfurt, Germany. The Hague, Netherlands / Bonn, Germany, 08/03/2017, 09:30 AM CEST DHL Express has extended its successful City Hub concept for environmentally-friendly inner-city deliveries to The Hague, Netherlands with
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Syntus, a Keolis Group company, has confirmed orders for a total of nine BYD pure electric 12m single deck e-buses for service in two Dutch cities. The buses, each with three doors, will enter service in December 2017. Two will provide services in Amersfoort under an existing Syntus contract and seven will service a new concession in Almere. In both
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Amber, a Netherlands-based startup that has recently drawn international attention for the development of modular, autonomous, and customizable electric car designed specifically for car sharing service, plans to launch self-driving car-sharing service on a large-scale in the city of Eindhovennad, Netherlands by mid-2018. April 26, 2017 01:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time HANNOVER, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eindhoven, Netherlands, will be the first city in the
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RAAMSDONKSVEER, The Netherlands, Feb. 13, 2017 /CNW/ – This week, flying car manufacturer PAL-V has officially started the sales of its commercial models, the Liberty Pioneer and Liberty Sport. The first commercial flying car in the world is now a fact. Images of the PAL-V Liberty are now available on the PAL-V website (http://www.PAL-V.com). “After years of hard work, beating the technical and qualification challenges, our
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All 43 public buses in the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Helmond will be electrically powered, starting the 11th of December. Together they form the largest zero-emission bus fleet in public transport in Europe. HILVERSUM, Netherlands, December 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — It’s the first public transport concession in Europe to deploy that many fully electric buses. London, for example, has 51 electric buses, but these are standard buses. The extra-long articulated
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ARNHEM, The Netherlands, October 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — How the Netherlands are using electric vehicles to store peak power production of sustainable resources? By turning itself into one huge Living Lab for Smart Charging of electric vehicles, the Netherlands are fast becoming the international frontrunner for smart charging EV‘s, using them to store peak power production of solar and wind. Already 325 municipalities (including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague) have joined the Dutch Living Lab Smart Charging representing 80
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