Siemens is successfully supplying charging systems and solutions for electric vehicles in the UK. The company has now installed charging systems in cities ranging from Aberdeen to Bristol. Meanwhile in Manchester, the company is installing recharging facilities for city buses. The four high power, triple-outlet rapid chargers close to Manchester’s Picadilly Station will be used for recharging the city’s new electric bus now coming into use.
August 28, 2014
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Electric vehicle charging for passenger cars are also now in use in Manchester, with the city’s facilities including a number close to the Manchester City football ground
1134 Siemens is successfully supplying charging systems and solutions for electric vehicles in the UK. The company has now installed charging systems in cities ranging from Aberdeen to Bristol. Meanwhile in Manchester, the company is installing recharging facilities for city buses. The four high power, triple-outlet rapid chargers close to Manchester’s Picadilly Station will be used for recharging the city’s new electric bus now coming into use.
Swedish inductive road consortium Smartroad Gotland has won a contract to convert 1.6km of road around Visby into an electric vehicle demonstration bed.
The award by Sweden’s government transport administration agency Trafikverket covers a route used by buses and is also popular with logistics vehicle drivers between Visby Airport and central Visby. The former Hanseatic city, with a population around 25,000, is on the island of Gotland and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995.
Visby joins
OLEV Technologies has announced that its On-line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) bus project for the city of McAllen, Texas has been selected for funding through the US Federal Transportation Administration TIGGER (Transit Investment in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction) grant programme.
Where the diesel engine was once the simple solution for OEMs wanting a power source, recent emissions regulations have added such cost and complexity to the diesel-fuelled internal combustion engine that there are now other simpler, solutions on the horizon. That’s the message from Julie Furber, executive director of Cummins electrified power business, who believes that electrification will be the new, simple power solution. “As a provider of power sources, Cummins is in a position to give its customers an
