Uber rolls out electric bike fleet
- 31-Aug-2023
Ride-hailing firm Uber on Thursday launched an electric motorbike service in Kenya, its first in Africa, as the company seeks to make its global platform emissions free by 2040. The rollout in Kenya will be followed later this year in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa, said Kagiso Khaole, Uber’s general manager […]
IKEA’s home deliveries will be fully electric by 2025
- 03-Oct-2022
IKEA’s home deliveries will be made by electric vehicles by 2025 as part of a target at the world’s No.1 furniture brand to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years, CEO Jesper Brodin said on Monday. In an interview at the Reuters IMPACT conference, Brodin said some cities were already fully electric […]
India plans new battery swap policy for electric scooters, rickshaws
- 22-Apr-2022
The draft policy did not include details of any investment plans.
Shell plans 50,000 electric car charging points
- 01-Sep-2021
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell unveiled plans Wednesday to instal up to 50,000 electric car charging points in Britain in the coming years. Shell said in a statement that its Ubitricity subsidiary aims to reach the target by late 2025, under the company’s transition toward green energy. Ubitricity, which was founded in Germany in […]
KU announces to launch on-campus electric shuttle service
- 01-Apr-2021
The University of Karachi Wednesday signed the memorandum of understanding MoU with NTS Logistics
Pakistan introduces first electric rickshaw
- 04-Feb-2020
Pakistan introduces electric rickshaws for the first time. The battery is designated as EcoRik Li-Ion Battery, with powering 48V, 125Ah, and 6kwh. It will be charged in 5 hours, and once the Rickshaw gets charged it can drive for 125 Km, the advisor added. Malik Amin Aslam also said the government was working to introduce […]
Audi’s electric SUV faces four-week delay because of software bug
- 21-Oct-2018
FRANKFURT/SEOUL: Audi’s first electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) will hit showrooms four weeks later than planned because of a software development issue, a spokesman for the German luxury car brand said on Sunday. The spokesman said Audi’s e-tron midsize SUV faced delay because the carmaker needs new regulatory clearance for a piece of software that […]
Uber agrees to buy electric cycle-sharing startup JUMP Bikes
- 09-Apr-2018
SAN FRANCISCO: Ride-hailing company Uber said on Monday it has agreed to buy electric bicycle service JUMP Bikes, allowing Uber to offer US passengers an alternative to cars and further consolidating the crowded bike-sharing industry. JUMP is a dockless electric bike service that has rolled out in San Francisco, where it has 250 bikes, and […]
Hyundai’s new Nexo Fuel Cell Vehicle unveiled at CES 2018
- 13-Jan-2018
LAS VEGAS: Hyundai’s newly unveiled 2019 NEXO Fuel Cell Vehicle is the most talked about technology at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2018 being held in Las Vegas. Following review of hundreds of products at CES, NEXO has also has won the Reviewed.com Editor’s Choice award for the show. The publication’s recognition highlights NEXO as […]