Volkswagen’s “electric car for the masses” has an entry price under 30,000 euros. VW guarantees the battery for eight years or 99,400 miles.
Mercedes-Benz Vans battery-electric Concept EQV van can travel up to 250 miles on a single charge. The van makes its debut at this year’s IAA in Hannover, Germany in September.
The damages included paint scratches and moisture in one of the headlights. More severe damages involved tire damage, defective charging controllers, and missing emergency call buttons.
The service, launched in Berlin, will expand to Prague and Hamburg in 2020. The number of carsharing users in Germany has risen to 2.46 million this year.
A new test route to determine the viability of using overhead electric wires to power specially equipped, diesel-hybrid trucks in Germany has opened on a stretch of autobahn in the State of Hesse.
Logistics service provider DB Schenker and Fuso, a Daimler Trucks brand, are expanding their partnership to bring more fully electric cabovers into European cities to support last-mile deliveries.
The company already owns 350 EVs, including Teslas, Jaguars, Renaults, Nissans, and Kias, among other brands.
Ford is producing a medium-sized electric delivery van for Deutsche Post DHL to support the company’s urban parcel delivery service in Germany.
Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz Vans division showed off a concept Sprinter that delivers power from a hydrogen fuel cell stack to an electric motor that could achieve an effective range of 500 kilometers (310 miles). Executives showed the vehicle to journalists in Hamburg, Germany, on July 3.
Volkswagen AG has been fined $1.18 billion (1 billion euros) by public prosecutors in Germany over diesel emissions cheating in approximately 10.7 million vehicles.