A system that did not work out till now in Europe and the USA, gets probably a renewed trial in India: battery swapping for electric vehicles. This time not applied on cars but on buses. Coming soon to India are fully electric buses that can swap batteries at petrol pump-like facilities.
After having launched first the production of heavy-duty Isuzu trucks in Russia, this Japanese manufacturer of commercial vehicles is now ready for the next step – which is the production of buses and coaches.
Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast is interested in Belarusian electric buses. Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko and Sverdlovsk Oblast Acting Governor Yevgeny Kuivashev discussed the possibility of arranging supplies of the innovative vehicles to Russia as they met in Yekaterinburg on 12 July,
Microvast, a provider of battery storage that its battery systems has been installed in Higer pure-electric buses, which will provide shuttle services during the Expo 2017 Astana exhibition in the capital of Kazakhstan.
A group of Dutch university students from the city of Eindhoven has developed a way of storing a new alternative energy that could be cheaper to make, more practical and more sustainable than most alternative renewable fuels currently used.