The Irish city of Cork has commissioned 76 electric vehicles to replace combustion engines. The Renault Kangoo ZE, Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Kona are used by city employees in the areas of road and apartment maintenance, park management and waste disposal.

Two of the vehicles are said to be available as pool vehicles for City Hall employees. According to the city, Cork is now the largest emission-free fleet in the country. The exchange of the fleet was implemented within a few months...

In 2014, the first heat pump was used by Hyundai-Kia in the Kia Soul EV. Since then, the Koreans have continued to develop the technology - and now provide some new insights into the development with which the range of electric cars is to be improved under all climatic conditions.


The principle of the heat pump is very simple: Instead of using electricity from the drive battery and a heating element to heat the interior, the system uses the waste heat from other components in...

Hyundai has invested in Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, a spin-off of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg founded in 2013. The aim is to develop technology and business together with a focus on stationary LOHC applications.

The partners do not provide any information about the amount of the investment. On the other hand, it is public that the joint activities - i.e. the market launch of a LOHC-based hydrogen infrastructure - should initially focus on South Korea before...