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Spanish Basque Country gets EV recharging network alongside some gas pumps

The Basque Government in Spain has announced an agreement with Repsol to install recharging points for EVs at gasoline refueling stations. These EV stations would be safely separated from gasoline pumps but will be installed near already existing infrastructure. The plan was announced by Repsol's CEO Antoni Brufau, the Basque Prime Minister Patxi López and the Director of the Basque Institute of Energy, Bernabé Unda. Repsol is Spain's largest gasoline distributor and the world's 15th largest oil company. The Basque country is ... Read more →

Medic! Spanish bifuel ambulances curb emissions, disappoint drivers Xavier Navarro

A Spanish ambulance company in the city of Zaragoza, Ambuibérica, is trying out bifuel vehicles to transport patients. The 10 Mercedes-sourced vehicles use bifuel powertrains that can burn ...

BYD signs agreement to import EVs to Spain Xavier Navarro

BYD's Wang Chuan-Fu has signed an agreement with Spanish distributor Grupo Bergé to import BYD electric cars to Spain. As a consequence, two BYD models are already included in the list of ...

Spanish "green insurance" company offers all kinds of incentives, including a free bike Xavier Navarro

Spanish insurer MMT is currently offering a "green insurance policy" called ecopóliza that uses all kind of green incentives to attract customers. Purchasers of this package can not only get ...

Telephone booths in Spain could get a green makeover as EV charging stations Jeremy Korzeniewski

Now that cell phones are so ubiquitous all around the developed world, there seems to be little need for all those public telephone booths dotting the landscape. This being the case, there are plans ...

Spain announces electric vehicle rebates of up to €7,000 per car 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Spain's Minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastián, has announced that Spain will subsidize purchases of electric vehicles up to 15 to 20 percent of its cost. For standard electric cars, Spaniards can get up to €7,000 back; for vehicles such as motorbikes, buses or trucks, the aid ...

Madrid installing EV recharging points at all public parking facilities 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Trying out the new Insight in Spain at the EcoDesafío Honda Insight 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

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. The Honda Civic hybrid is available here, but hasn't seen too many sales, in part because diesel is ...

Bilbao claims to have the first subway in the world using only renewable energy 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Bilbao, Spain, has a subway system that is famous for having its stations designed by Sir Norman Foster. There's now another reason that people might be interested in riding the underground rails. Metro de Bilbao, the company that manages the railway system, has announced that all the energy they ...

Spain announces €2,000 scrappage plan 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Following the in the successful footsteps of France's €1,500, Germany's €2,500 and Britain's £2,000 vehicle scrapping programs, Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has announced a €2,000 scrappage plan to stimulate that country's auto industry and ...

550 Think City electric cars coming to Spain 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Think's European expansion continues with the announcement that 550 of the company's City electric vehicles will be delivered to Spain later this year and in the first part of 2010. Think announced today the MOU it signed with its Spanish partner, Going Green, to bring the small EVs to Spain, ...

Spanish automakers' association calls for scrappage scheme 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Might Spain soon jump on the vehicle scrapping bandwagon? According to ANFAC, an organization of automakers with operations in Spain, sales were down 45.6-percent from the same month a year ago, a sobering fact that's caused the organization to reiterate its stance that the country needs to ...

New TDI engines spread through VW family 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

The all-new generation of Volkswagen TDI engines, fitted with common-rail technology instead of pump-injectors, is spreading through the corporate family. Next June, Seat is getting the new 1.6-liter diesel engines under the hoods of the Ibiza. The new 90hp version, which is the detuned version ...

Spain to offer subsidised loans to boost its green car industry 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

The European Union has reportedly granted Spain permission to offer another series of low-interest loans to automakers operating within its borders. The money is to be used to further various automaker's investments into products that meet the EU's environmental standards, which seems like a pretty ...

Spain's pilot EV recharging network starts in Seville 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Spain's fourth largest city is getting 75 public electric vehicle recharging stations throughout the city this year. Spain's ambitious program of introducing EVs, hybrid and plug-in cars (a million units for 2012) is promoting the new network under the Movele program. Seville is getting recharging ...

Brazil having a hard time selling its biodiesel in Europe 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Brazil's President Inázio Lula da Silva visited Europe not long ago and he promoted the benefits of Brazilian biodiesel in France and Spain. This might have seemed like a good idea, if it weren't for the fact that Spain's biggest oil company, Repsol, had just frozen the construction of a new ...

Barcelona tests the Tempus, its first hybrid bus 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 streets of Barcelona this week. The Tempus, as it's called, mates an electric powertrain to Iveco's ...

PSA considering manufacturing a hybrid for Spain 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

PSA has one of its largest manufacturing plants in the NW of Spain, near the city of Vigo. Since Spain is one of the countries that insists it will put a million EV and/or plug-in hybrids on roads by 2014 and is also Europe's 5th largest market, automakers are already introducing plug-in projects - ...

Catalonia officials lowering speed limits drastically to reduce pollution 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 the Netherlands, highways in Barcelona will now have variable speed limits. A smart system with ...

PROBIO inaugurates the first biodiesel rewards card 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Although we get more of those credit rewards cards than we really need, here's one for a project that promotes biodiesel. A few territories in the European Union will soon have biodiesel fidelity cards (as they're technically known) to help you fill your car with the biofuel. The five regions are ...

Seat introduces Len Twin Drive Ecomotive hybrid concept 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT has introduced a new concept, based on the current Seat León (which itself has a lot in common with the Audi A3) that sports an all-new plug-in hybrid powertrain. The model, called the SEAT León Twin Drive Ecomotive, has two driving modes: the car is equipped with a ...

CO2 based motorbike tax goes into effect in Spain 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Although motorbikes can pollute less than cars, they still have a carbon footprint. In some European cities - Milan, Rome and Barcelona, for example - there are more two-wheeled vehicles than cars, and all those smaller footprints add up. Spain has decided to do something about the emissions from ...

New SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive gets updated, moves abroad 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Click on image above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Seat Ibiza Ecomotive It's time for SEAT to launch the Ecomotive version of the latest Ibiza. The green Ibiza has been on sale since January in Spain and will soon make it to the rest of the European markets. The engine - VW's 1.4-liter TDI ...

Ecofasa turns waste to biodiesel using bacteria 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A group of Spanish developers working for a company called Ecofasa just announced a new biofuel made up from trash. This isn't a biodiesel made from used frying oil; instead, it's made from general urban waste which is treated by bacteria. The result of that bacteria? Fatty acids that can be used to ...

More information about Renault's EV project in Spain 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Not long ago, Spain launched a wishlist of plans to make the country greener. It included a target of one million hybrid, plug-in and all-EV cars on roads by 2015. This is where Renault arrived with its projects around the world regarding EVs (Denmark, Portugal and Israel). But, Nissan's plant in ...

Spain implements first mandatory biofuel quota 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As you might remember, the EU wants all state members to use 10 percent of biofuels by 2020 at pumps. The way this policy gets implemented is left up to the will of each country, either by mandatory blends or sales quotas. Such is the case of Spain, which has just started to make biofuel ...

Toyota launches Ecodriving campaign across Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hey look, one more course to learn tips for savvy driving! Toyota has announced plans for an EcoDriving course with Global Action Plan International that will promote smart driving courses for 12,000 Europeans in Spain, Belgium, Iceland, Norway, and the UK. The program, which costs ...

Spain to study changes for road tax system based on CO2 emissions 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Until now, Spain was known for having a simple system to tax cars based on CO2 emissions. It's called "Impuesto de matriculación," which we can roughly translate as "registration tax." However, this tax is paid at purchase and there's no further effect during the life cycle of the vehicle. ...

Spain will offer carpoolers lower toll booth costs 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 more than one person will get significant savings at toll booths, and the discount system is ...

Spain expands CO2 emission-based tax scheme to two-wheelers 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Spain was one of the first countries to tax cars, at least when they're purchased, depending on their CO2 emission levels. What's good for four wheels is good for two, apparently, and a very similar tax system has been adopted for motorbikes, which will be put into effect at the start of 2009. This ...

Madrid installing nitrogen-oxide capturing asphalt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 asphalt on its streets with a bituminous mix called noxer that includes titanium oxide. This substance ...

Renault-Nissan massive EV project also coming to Spain 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A hint was given when the Spanish Government announced its wish list to reduce the Iberian country's dependence on oil but now it's been announced by Europa Press: The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce has announced an agreement with Nissan-Renault to study the possibility of a ...

Hands on: Spain to promote 31 measures to save energy and makes cars an important part of them 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Spain's Minister of Industry and Energy, Miguel Sebastián, has introduced a set of measures to save energy, most of which affect cars and the way they're driven. These are expected to save 43 to 47 million barrels from being imported into Spain by 2011, not only for economic reasons but also ...

British Motor Show: The Aspid. Ultra sports meets efficient. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click for high-resolution gallery Spanish company IFR Automotive has unveiled the Aspid at the British Motor Show. The Aspid is a new ultra-lightweight sports car. The Aspid (Spanish for viper, ahem) features a 2-liter I4 engine in two versions able to produce 270 and 400hp, the latter thanks to ...

Spanish GM factory adds solar roof 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The General Motors factory in Zaragoza, Spain is set to get a roof tiled in solar panels as part of a larger initiative throughout GM's European operations. 183,000 square meters of photovoltaic cells will be capable of providing up to a quarter of the factory's peak demand. Zaragoza is GM's ...

Earthrace finally, finally finishes record circumnavigation attempt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Martin Pettitt. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. It was not an easy journey. Following a tragic first attempt, the crew of the biodiesel-powered Earthrace boat set out a second time to break the record for motorized circumnavigation. On the second trip, a biodiesel flood and a ...

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