By Auke Hoekstra This blog first appeared on the currently defunct site Living Lab Smart Charging in September 2017. In this blog we will calculate the future cost per kilometer of a heavy-duty...
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The number of electric buses in Western Europe is skyrocketing. In the past year, more E-buses were registered than between the years 2012 and 2018 combined. This was the outcome of a study by...
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Every week, together with Electric Vehicle (EV) specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra, we look at what has caught his attention in current affairs or what he has encountered when...
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We have to abandon fossil fuels. Combustion engines in cars and vans are being replaced by batteries. Electric driving is a good solution for passenger cars, but for vans it is more complicated....
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Germany is split on the subject of electromobility. On the one hand, “green scientists” are in a hurry to make the transition from combustion to electric motors. This is the only way to...
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Start-ups face challenges on many different levels and it’s the ultimate balancing game. You need to have a team in order to deliver your proposal. And in order to get a team, you need...
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The ‘strict’ environmental objectives for 2021 are rapidly approaching. In that year, the average tank-to-wheel CO2 emissions for an automobile concern’s entire fleet are permitted...
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In the third and last part of our small series about electric cars, battery or hydrogen-powered, we compare these two concepts once again, look at the respective dangers, and draw a conclusion as to...
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London, Stockholm or Milan already have it and many other cities are considering the introduction of a city toll. Plug-in hybrids with their combination of combustion engine and electric motor have...
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Granted: Poland is not exactly known as a green EU country. But thanks to the German energy giant Innogy this could soon change. The RWE subsidiary is launching a project with 500 BMW i3 in Warsaw...
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In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future...
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According to Statista, 46.5 million cars populate Germany’s roads. With a population density of 82.6 million people, more than one in two drives a car. By comparison, the stock of electric...
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