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  • 06 Aug 2018 |

    How Germany is greening its growing freight sector to meet climate targets

    Cargo transport and the energy transition 06 Aug 2018, 11:00 The Dieselgate scandal has put passenger car emissions in the public spotlight in Germany, but an even bigger road polluter – freight transport – remains a sideshow. Transporting goods by road, ...
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  • 02 Mar 2020 |

    StreetScooter's demise reveals challenges for e-car start-ups – industry expert

    02 Mar 2020, 14:22 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The end of Deutsche Post DHL’s electric ...
  • 22 Dec 2017 |

    Deutsche Post’s Streetscooter e-car said to have problems with cold weather

    The electric Streetscooter, built by postal service Deutsche Post, is struggling to function properly in cold winter weather, Birger Nicolai writes in Die Welt. Drivers using the e-car, produced by Deutsche Post after it failed to find a comparable model ...
  • 23 Feb 2021 |

    Deutsche Post's e-van StreetScooter attracts buyers, defying predicted demise

    23 Feb 2021, 11:48 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Online The electric delivery vehicle StreetScooter, a subsidiary of German postal service Deutsche Post, has attracted potential ...
  • 29 May 2018 |

    The British milkman now travels by StreetScooter

    The U.K. home delivery business Milk & More has ordered 200 electric vans produced by the Deutsche Post subsidiary StreetScooter, Deutsche Post DHL Group said in a press release. Milk & More aims to make the delivery of milk and other fresh ...
  • 23 Mar 2021 |

    Deutsche Post to invest 7 billion euros in climate-neutral logistics by 2030

    23 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is investing seven billion euros in climate-neutral logistics until 2030, the company ...
  • 31 May 2018 |

    German Postal Service mulls stock market launch of Streetscooter e-car branch

    The German Postal Service’s e-car manufacturing branch Streetscooter could soon be listed on the stock market, news agency Reuters reports. “It’s theoretically possible. We’re looking at the next two to three years,” the Postal Service’s board member ...
  • “Post takes Streetscooter to market – and turns into Germany’s largest e-car seller”

    Deutsche Post DHL will double production capacity for its self-developed electric van, and start Streetscooter sales to third parties due to strong demand. The logistics company said in a press release it will commission another production location to ...
  • 13 Apr 2017 |

    Deutsche Post mulls global expansion of Streetscooter production

    Deutsche Post DHL is eyeing global production and sales of its electric van, StreetScooter. Board member Jürgen Gerdes told Rheinische Post: “In the long run, global sales of 100,000 units per year are conceivable with ten production plants.” He said he ...
  • 18 Aug 2016 |

    “Deutsche Post DHL Group pushes e-mobility – 2,000 electric vans by the end of the year”

    Deutsche Post DHL Group is aiming to have 2,000 new electric delivery vans on the streets in Germany by the end of the year, Hans-Christoph Neidlein writes in PV Europe. Deutsche Post DHL already has 1,000 electric vans, known as StreetScooters, in ...
  • 28 Nov 2017 |

    Mercedes vans are going electric

    German car manufacturer Daimler will start selling electric versions of its transporter Mercedes “Vito” in 2018, Handelsblatt reports. The van is Mercedes’ answer to the Deutsche Post’s newly developed electric Streetscooter. It will have a range of 150 ...
  • 12 Jul 2016 |

    Researchers develop city e-car for 12,500 euros

    Researchers at Aachen University have developed a small electric car go on the market for 12,500 euros from 2018, reports Wolfgang Kempkens for Wirtschaftswoche. The same team was responsible for the development of the Streetscooter now used by Deutsche ...
  • 09 Mar 2018 |

    German universities to develop autonomous car

    Seven German universities have teamed up to develop an autonomous e-car, competing with automakers and tech giants such as Google and Apple, reports Spiegel Online. RWTH Aachen University – which already developed the successful Streetscooter delivery van ...
  • 06 Oct 2017 |

    New e-car maker e.GO scales up expansion plans – up to 100,000 cars per year

    Thanks to unexpectedly strong demand, new budget e-car maker e.GO has expanded its production plans, reports public broadcaster WDR. The company aims to make up to 100,000 electric vehicles per year, considerably scaling up original plans for 20,000 cars. ...
  • 01 Oct 2018 |

    Municipal German utility enters e-car manufacturing market

    Municipal utility NEW from western Germany will join the growing ranks of e-car manufacturers, Florian Rinke writes in the Rheinische Post. The small utility has invested about 2.5 million euros in the company Share2Drive from Aachen, which has developed ...
  • DHL and Ford unveil jointly produced electric delivery van

    In an effort to expand its existing fleet of electric delivery vans, Deutsche Post DHL Group has teamed up with US carmaker Ford and unveiled a jointly manufactured, larger version of the e-van, the "StreetScooter WORK XL". “With this commitment ...
  • “Deutsche Post and Ford to manufacture E-Van”

    German postal service Deutsche Post DHL and carmaker Ford are entering a partnership to manufacture electric delivery vans, Deutsche Post said in a press release. The new van – with the chassis of the Ford Transit providing the technical basis – will be ...
  • 04 Feb 2019 |

    Group of companies aim for battery cell production in NRW

    04 Feb 2019, 14:06 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Storage Cars Handelsblatt A group of western German companies including battery producer BMZ and start-up TerraE around Streetscooter-founder Günther Schuh are planning to establish a battery cell ...
  • 27 Aug 2018 |

    E-car pioneer predicts one million electric cars in Germany by 2022

    German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, founder of the successful e-van company StreetScooter and inventor of the new compact e-car e.GO Life, says he is “optimistic” that there will be more than one million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2022, two ...
  • “New company alliance wants to produce battery cells in Germany”

    A consortium of German companies has made a fresh attempt to establish battery cell production in the country, Alfons Frese writes in Tagesspiegel. Plant manufacturers Thyssen-Krupp, M+W and Manz have teamed up with cell producers Litarion, ...
  • “11,900 euros: Germany’s cheapest e-car could become a bestseller”

    Germany’s current cheapest electric car, the e.GO Life, comes from the small, new manufacturer e.GO Mobile and has the potential to become a bestseller, Focus Online reports. “We aim for a production of 20,000 cars by 2019,” says CEO Günter Schuh, who is ...
  • 10 Oct 2022 |

    German postal service tests delivery via solar-powered ship in Berlin

    10 Oct 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is testing emission-free delivery on Berlin’s Spree river with a solar-powered ship. The pilot project in the capital is an addition to the company’s ...
  • 05 Apr 2019 |

    German e-car pioneer takes to the skies in hybrid “Silent Air Taxi”

    05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup  e.GO Mobile  and spearheaded the development of the  electric delivery van StreetScooter  now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
  • 11 Jul 2019 |

    Customers do not want e-cars – electric mobility pioneer Schuh

    11 Jul 2019, 14:16 Sven Egenter Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German drivers do not want electric cars because these do not offer the same range as any gasoline car at a competitive price, e-mobility pioneer Günther Schuh says in an interview with Süddeutsche ...
  • 17 Oct 2019 |

    E-fuels will be driving force towards zero-emission logistics – Deutsche Post DHL

    17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight 91tv Renewable ...
  • 05 Mar 2019 |

    VW signs e-vehicle startup e.Go as first partner for production platform

    05 Mar 2019, 13:56 Sören Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Reuters / Die Welt Volkswagen has signed German startup e.GO Mobile as the first external partner for its modular platform for electric vehicles (EV), reports Ludwig Burger for Reuters. The partner ...
  • 03 Apr 2019 |

    German e-car pioneer says cars should have smaller battery and hydrogen fuel cell

    03 Apr 2019, 12:16 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen 91tv Extending the range of battery-based electric cars with an additional hydrogen fuel cell makes more sense from an economic and environmental perspective than using huge batteries, said ...
  • 24 Jun 2019 |

    Merkel holds another ‘car summit‘ aimed at making German car industry future proof

    24 Jun 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Handelsblatt / Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung After a series of meetings with high-profile car industry representatives in recent years to deal with the fallout of the so ...
  • 04 Apr 2016

    Lignite plants still lead top polluters / Mercury poisons fish

    04 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Sandbag “Top 10 European polluters still dominated by German lignite” “Four out of five of the biggest polluters in Europe are still German lignite plants,” reports UK-based sandbag. The not-for-profit ...
  • 31 May 2019 |

    Start-up e.GO Mobile hopes to speed up transport transition with cheap subcompact

    31 May 2019, 12:16 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
  • Climate targets force trucks into race to clean up transport

    15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
  • 30 Oct 2017 |

    COP23- See the energy transition in Germany's industrial centre

    30 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) hosts the United Nations’ COP23 climate summit in Bonn. The epicentre of Germany’s industrialisation, this region is responsible for almost one percent of global CO2 emissions, ...
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