The Federal Cabinet has decided on the “National Hydrogen Strategy”. The government hopes to decarbonize "important German core sectors" such as steel and chemicals, but also the transport sector. Morocco should also help.


According to economics minister Peter Altmaier (CDU), the strategy that has now been adopted should contribute to making “Germany the number 1 in the world in hydrogen technologies”. "The time for hydrogen and the technologies required...

Volvo Buses has received an order from operator Vy Buss for 49 purely electric articulated buses. The vehicles will be used in the Swedish city of Jönköping from summer 2021.


The order from Vy Buss was received earlier in the year, but Volvo Buses has only published it now. However, Volvo does not state the financial volume of the deal in the message.

The model ordered is the 7900 Electric Articulated model presented in autumn 2019 . This type of bus can carry...

The Federal Government has also included a number of measures to promote electromobility in its stimulus package relating to the Corona crisis. The most important of course: The state's share of the environmental bonus will be doubled in the form of a new “innovation bonus”.


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“With the environmental bonus, we are promoting the exchange of the vehicle fleet with climate-friendly...