Cyprus expands incentive scheme for electric cars, vehicle replacement
The Council of Ministers intends to increase the EUR 3 million package. Cyprus set aside EUR 5,000 for new electric cars that cost up to EUR 40,000 and EUR 2,000 apiece for those who switch to a new conventional unit and scrap a vehicle older than 15 years. Thousands of drivers applied for a chunk […]
Sarajevo gets EUR 35 million in loans for greener public transport
The Ministry of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EBRD have signed two loan agreements supported under the lender’s Green Cities program for public transport in Sarajevo. The investments will help Sarajevo, one of the cities that have the most polluted air not only in the region but in the entire world, […]
TOGG presents Turkey’s first domestically made electric vehicle
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is about to take the prototype of a compact sports utility vehicle for a spin for the media in Gebze near Istanbul. Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture Group Inc., founded under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, is developing the first domestically produced car within a planned series of […]
Rimac Automobili to develop Hyper E-Car Lab in Slovenia
Croatia’s Rimac Automobili and Slovenia’s Lastinski Inženjering have agreed to establish Hyper E-Car Lab, an electric vehicle testing center in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. The unit will be used by the Croatian technology and electric sports car company to test its own batteries and drivetrains. According to media reports, other companies will be able to use […]
Viessmann: Let’s donate White Friday profits to polio, palsy patients
Instead of Black Friday, Viesmann DOO announced its second humanitarian White Friday. The maker of heating boilers, heat pumps and cooling systems said it would, instead of opting for sales and discounts, give away all the profit made on December 6 to people suffering from polio and cerebral palsy. It has also invited all companies […]
French companies Airbus, Renault present mobility innovations in Belgrade
Technology solutions for new mobility are already here or very close, but their certification by the competent institutions and whether users would accept them could be an issue. This is a key takeaway from the Innovating Mobility conference, powered by Airbus and held at the Embassy of France in Belgrade. At the conference, organized by the […]
Hrvatski Telekom, GEN-I agree long-term cooperation on e-mobility
Croatian telecommunications provider Hrvatski Telekom, which operates the largest network of electric vehicle charging stations in the country, and Slovenian electricity supplier and trader GEN-I have signed an agreement on long-term cooperation in the field of e-mobility, enabling GEN-I customers in Slovenia and Croatia who drive e-vehicles to use all e-chargers operated by Hrvatski Telekom. […]
Croatian e-bike startup Greyp partners with blockchain groups slock.it, Energy Web Foundation
Greyp, a Croatian electric bike manufacturer and mobility tech startup, has joined forces with two blockchain groups, slock.it and the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), to develop an automatic payment system for IoT vehicles, portal tech.eu has reported. Greyp is a sister company of Rimac Automobili. Such payments will begin as machine-to-machine transactions, such as tolls, […]
