Transport

Once complete, an E-Truck will be able to cover over 600 km across Germany along one of European’s major road transport routes, announced bp’s electric vehicle charging business, bp pulse.

In 2021, the share of renewable sources in transport reached 9.1 per cent at the European Union level, a 1.2 percentage points (pp) decrease compared with 2020, according to the latest data from Eurostat.

The ORLEN Group is finalising the purchase of 17 service stations in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

The European Investment Bank and PPP Solutions Polska have signed a new financing agreement, worth 38.2 million euros for a new tram line in the southern Polish city of Kraków.

A hydrogen fuel cell bus is coming to Paks, Hungary, for 3 days, as a demonstration within the "CEE Hydrogen Bus Roadshow" project. The bus will be part of the city's public transport system during the pilot project, so anyone can have a ride.

Last week, the Polish majority state-owned PGE signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the Polish railway electricity distributor, PKP Energetyka, for 407 million euros. Once the transaction is finalised, PGE will be the owner of a company with exclusivity to energy supplies for the railway sector and traction network maintenance services.

Nikola Energy and E.ON Hydrogen have confirmed their goal of making hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles cost-competitive to diesel trucks, in terms of the total cost of ownership, an important step on the road to decarbonising heavy-duty transport.

Mercedes-Benz Vans announced that it will open an "all-electric" van production site in southwestern Poland. The investment is valued at 1.3 billion euros and is expected to create around 2,500 jobs in the future.

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The international ORLEN Group, which operates the ORLEN Benzina network of filling stations in Czechia, is significantly expanding in Hungary and Slovakia.

Slovak municipalities, companies, and expressway locations will all be eligible for financing of public electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure under a new set of EV charging infrastructure grants to be launched by Slovakia.

The European Investment Bank and the city of Kyiv signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate further cooperation on financing and preparing priority investment projects for Ukraine’s capital.