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Madrid installing EV recharging points at all public parking facilities

Madrid City Hall, Spain, has decided to go big for electric cars and install EV recharging points at all public parking facilities in the city. This means that the city's 36 parking installations will have up to 58 recharging points where EVs can be charged for free. What's more, City Hall has announced that all new parking lots will include these charging stations and the system will also be brought to municipal facilities that are used by residents. This isn't the last EV step for Madrid: City Hall said there is a soon-to-be-signed agreement ... Read more →

Madrid installing nitrogen-oxide capturing asphalt Xavier Navarro

Cities get some face lifts during summer months, when traffic is lower and most of its dwellers escape for vacations. Such is the case of Spain's capital city Madrid, which is renewing some of the ...

Spanish forest rangers won't get lost on their GPS-equipped donkeys Xavier Navarro

This is fun. The council of the town of Pozuelo de Alarcón, near Madrid, Spain, has decided to invest in the greenest technology available for the municipality's forest rangers: animal ...

Madrid Motor Show: Kia eco_cee'd - 104g/km of CO₂ Sam Abuelsamid

At the Madrid Motor Show this week, Kia is showing off its latest entry in the low CO2 derby with the eco_cee'd hatchback. With power coming from 1.6L diesel that automatically shuts off whenever the ...

All of Madrid's official vehicles will use clean fuels by 2011 Xavier Navarro

Madrid, Spain, is currently a very polluted city where 1.8 million vehicles are responsible for 75 percent of the pollutants in the air. Madrid's City Hall has decided that it will switch all its ...

Using the VAOs: Carpooling in Madrid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

VAO (Vía de Alta Ocupación) is the Spanish name for HOV lanes. Madrid has been working with a VAO lane on one of the main entries of the city, via the A6 highway (Northwest). This lane is usually used only by public transport, but the Regional Government of Madrid has decided to allow ...

Madrid announces plans to ban polluting cars from city center 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The City Council of Madrid, Spain, has unveiled plans to create a low-emissions zone in the city center which would ban polluting cars. This system is very similar to the ones implemented in several German cities and differs from Milan and London's option of an urban toll (or congestion charge). If ...

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 2 years 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 ...

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