To encourage car drivers to use public transportation, the local government of Helsinki is working with a local tech company’s smartphone app that lets people combine public transit with car rentals, ride sharing, taxis, and other private sector services, MIT Technology Review reported.
Chinese renewable energy technology company BYD has become the first company to supply pure electric vehicles to Iran. BYD’s strategic partnership with the country’s largest private passenger car manufacturer Kerman Khodro will also see the Shenzhen-based company export other leading technological products to Iran including hybrid vehicles, electric commercial vehicles and rechargeable batteries.
A sales contract for 576 CKD versions of the Kingwin minivan was signed during a recent marketing conference in Egypt. Since the cooperation started in 2009, sales records have been set every year. By June of 2010, King Long Egypt (KLE) reached sales of 1,000 vehicles. The company broke the 10,000 vehicles mark in 2013, and, by October 2016, sold 23,000 vehicles.
Volvo recently launched the world’s largest bus chassis at the FetransRio exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new biarticulated chassis, Gran Artic 300, is 30 meter long and can carry up to 300 passengers. It was developed in Brasil.
The public transport company Consorzio Trasporti e Mobilità (CTM) in Cagliari has released a 4.5 km long line extension of its electric bus system, along the coast, without overhead wire. Vossloh Kiepe and Van Hool delivered 14 electric dual-mode buses for this extension. Four of them have been equipped with the powerful lithium-titanate-oxide (LTO) batteries. These batteries are charged when the buses are operated via the overhead contact line (in-motion charging - IMC) or at the terminal in the form of opportunity charging.