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.
Ever since Henry Ford began mass manufacturing his Model T in 1908, the motor car has grown vastly in importance and has helped transform transportation. However the future availability of fossil fuels as well as concerns over pollution and climate change from CO2 emissions has seen the auto industry look to alternative powertrain solutions.
Looking at the powertrain possibilities for the future there are a number of options. Hybrids to a large extent are an interim solution while those for the longer ter
Public transport solutions provider Xerox has been successful in winning orders for its ticketing systems, most recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Chihuahua, Mexico. In Kuala Lumpur, the company will supply its Atlas contactless ticketing system and equipment to public transport operator Mass Rapid Transit Corporation for a new railway line that will cross the urban area of the city. Over the next five years, Xerox’s field teams will deploy the ticketing system, install 300 gate controllers and 200 tick
Testing of Electreon’s inductive dynamic charging technology along a Detroit road will start next year using a Ford E-Transit van equipped with the Electreon receiver.
Intelligent traffic systems supplier Siemens has acquired UK traffic enforcement organisation, Zenco Systems
The announcement follows a number of joint technology projects between the two companies within the UK, including deployments in Manchester and London.
Zenco Systems was founded in 2006 to provide local authorities with the ability to use CCTV video evidence to enforce traffic contraventions.
Following the first digital enforcement trials in the London Borough of Camden in 1996, the ZenGrab
