Electric Bike-Car Hybrids a New Delivery Trend
Are they bicycles? Are they automobiles? The answer: a bit of both.
Industries / Mobility & Logistics
Top Investments 2020 in Thuringia
Thuringia stands out as a blockbuster investment location in Europe’s heartland, even in years as turbulent as 2020.
Top Investment 2020 in Saarland
Saarland impresses: Chinese high-tech company invests up to two billion euros.
Top Investments 2020 in Niedersachsen
China Logistics is investing Euro 100 Mio in JadeWeserPort; Titan Wind Energy acquires production facilities in Cuxhaven and moves into the offshore foundations market.
German Dronemaker Winging Along
One of Germany’s most exciting unmanned aviation (vulgo: drone) start-ups, Wingcopter, has really taken off in 2020.
Deploying Drones in Hamburg
The northern German city of Hamburg has just deployed the first autonomous waterborne drone for surveying waterways.
Tesla Gigafactory Sets New Construction Speed “Record”
US electric carmaker Tesla has gotten off to a flying start in its goal of completing its first European “gigafactory” in Grünheide near Berlin.
Hydrogen Busses
The eastern German city of Cottbus wants to make its bus fleet CO2 neutral. For that to happen, some of its 55 vehicles will have to run on “green hydrogen” produced from renewably generated electricity.
Drones for Germany’s East
May 2021 will see the scheduled opening of the German Aerospace Center DLR’s National Testing Center for unmanned civilian aviation systems in Cochstedt. This eastern German town was chosen because it possessed an underused regional airport, which the DLR acquired in mid-2019.
EVs and Hybrid Quadruple Market Share
According to figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority and the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), the number of newly registered electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) in Germany grew by some 400 percent in August. 33,203 such cars were registered, accounting for a record 13.2% of the market.
