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Hola! Renault-Nissan signs electric vehicle MOU with Barcelona; considers making batteries in France
Barcelona's green transportation options have recently expanded to include rental bikes and hybrid buses. A new memorandum of understanding between Barcelona and the Renault–Nissan Alliance – in which they promise to "work together to identify areas of co-operations in promoting the use of zero emission vehicles in the city" – will also bring zero-emission vehicles to the Spanish city. It's the latest of many MOUs the Alliance has signed with governments around the world. For Barcelona, the MOU is another step in a ... Read more →
Trying out the new Insight in Spain at the EcoDesafío Honda Insight Xavier Navarro
Click on image above to see a full gallery of the EcoDesafio Honda Insight in Barcelona The first generation the Honda Insight wasn't offered for sale in most European markets, including Spain. ...
Barcelona tests the Tempus, its first hybrid bus Xavier Navarro
Believe it or not, European cities are a little behind in incorporating hybrid powertrains to their fleets. Not long ago we mentioned a Spanish-made bus by Castrosua. This bus began tests on the ...
Catalonia officials lowering speed limits drastically to reduce pollution Xavier Navarro
The transit authorities in Catalonia, Spain have decided to take the drastic speed limit on the accesses to the city of Barcelona to the next level. Similar to plans in other cities, like Rotterdam in ...
Spain will offer carpoolers lower toll booth costs Xavier Navarro
Photo by Catorze. Under CCL 2.0 In order to stimulate more carpooling, the Government of Catalonia, Spain, is going to try a strategy that could affect people's wallets: drivers of cars occupied by ...
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Happy birthday! Bicing celebrates anniversary 1 year ago on Autoblog Green
Bicing, Barcelona's public rental service, is celebrating its first anniversary. Despite a number of shortcomings and critics, the Catalan capital has almost fully implemented the system with 286 stations and 4,000 bicycles for 130,000 registered users. The plans aren't stopping here. The city will ...
Study shows High Speed Trains emit less carbon than planes 1 year ago on Autoblog Green
Despite what some people claimed (and fueled a polemic here at ABG), a study published recently shows that High Speed Trains are more efficient than planes, in terms of CO2 production at least. Their impact on the land might be a different story. The statement was made by the former President of ...
Can natural gas and LPG help the cities? They're going to try that out 1 year ago on Autoblog Green
Fundació Gas Natural has published a study on how CNG vehicles can improve the air quality in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain. Of course, Gas Natural sells natural gas and is quite interested in this happening, but the study was performed with the Mare Nostrum supercomputer in the Universitat ...
Bicing makes biking popular in Barcelona with 30,000 users in 2 months 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Following in the footsteps of cities like Lyon and Paris in France, Vienna in Austria and others, Barcelona in Spain has started offering bicycles (the human powered kind... with pedals) to people who need to get around the city. Again, just like in Lyon and Paris, the system has been extremely ...
Air-powered car in France can go 120 miles per charge 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
Author Joel Barker of the website and book called Five Regions of the Future points us to the Air Car, which uses compressed air (and no emissions) to run the engine. The company producing the car, Moteur Developpment International, says they will begin selling the cars in Barcelona, but they are ...
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