Equipmake and Beulas unveil electric double decker bus with 543 kWh battery, 250 mile range

Spanish bus builder Beulas has teamed up with electric powertrain manufacturer Equipmake to create the Jewel E, an electric double-decker bus that will begin service in London. The Jewel E can be equipped with a battery pack up to 543 kWh, the largest battery of any single axle double-decker electric bus, providing a max range of 250 miles on a single charge.

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This fat tire e-bike lets you cruise around this fall at $1,099, more in New Green Deals

Ready to hit the road this fall? Well, the AOSTIRMOTOR electric bike is a great way to do that at $1,099. That’s a $200 discount and allows you to ride around at up to 28MPH without using any gas or oil. Plus, you’ll find discounts on electric lawn mowers and much more below, as well. We also have a wide selection of Tesla, Greenworks, and other e-bike discounts in today’s New Green Deals, so you won’t want to miss that either.

Head below for other New Green Deals that we’ve found today, more on why going electric for your yard tools like the mower on sale is important, and of course Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

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ACCURE raises $8 million to scale its battery analytics software

ACCURE, a software and AI battery analytics company based in Aachen, Germany, has received $8 million in Series A funding from Blue Bear Capital, Capnamic Ventures and 42CAP. 

ACCURE’s software is designed to empower battery manufacturers and operators to monitor battery health and safety in real time throughout an asset’s life cycle, enabling companies to predict safety incidents before they happen and optimize performance in the field without technical modifications or physically touching the assets. Today, more than 220,000 battery systems representing over 750 MWh worldwide are under ACCURE’s management.

“We have demonstrated that we can detect incidents like battery fires before they happen. We also predict and manage issues like recalls and warranty concerns to mitigate safety risk and maximize uptime,” says ACCURE CEO Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies. “ACCURE Cloud is like Google Analytics for batteries. Without disrupting any of our customers’ physical operations, we ingest the data provided by each battery and analyze it.”

“We believe that ACCURE’s team has the right experience to help asset owners protect billions of dollars of systems in the field across the globe. Thanks to its SaaS solution that can easily be retrofitted to any battery system, ACCURE is scaling quickly at the right point in time to shape this market,” said Dr. Carolin Funk, Partner at Blue Bear Capital.

Wallbox to establish EVSE manufacturing facility in Arlington, Texas

EVSE manufacturer Wallbox has selected Arlington, Texas as the location of its first US manufacturing facility. The 130,000-square-foot plant will have enough capacity to support Wallbox’s expansion plans in North America for the next decade. Wallbox expects to manufacture a total of 290,000 units annually at this facility by 2027, and reach its full capacity of 500,000 units by 2030.

Production is expected to start as early as June 2022, with production lines for Wallbox’s Pulsar Plus AC chargers. Lines for the Quasar DC bidirectional charger and the Supernova public DC fast charger are expected to follow in the first half of 2023.

The Arlington facility will be Wallbox’s fourth manufacturing site, joining two facilities in Europe and one in China. Wallbox operates with a vertically integrated supply chain, and does its product manufacturing in-house, from design to production.

Wallbox selected Arlington for a variety of reasons, including the city’s position as a central transit hub between the East and West coasts, its access to cross-country highway corridors and its proximity to major cities in the region, including Dallas and Fort Worth.

“The US automotive and energy markets are at an inflection point. Automotive electrification will accelerate, which will significantly increase the demand for our EV charging and energy management solutions,” said Enric Asunción, co-founder and CEO of Wallbox. “This new factory will be an instrumental step in our expansion in the North American market, enabling us not only to meet the growing demand, but also to accelerate the launch of new products and enter the business and public EV charging segments.”

“Between the highly successful launch of our residential charger Pulsar Plus and our recently announced strategic alliance with SunPower to offer packaged EV charger and solar installations across the US market, Wallbox has made great strides in establishing and growing its brand in the country this year,” said Douglas Alfaro, GM of North America at Wallbox. “The US factory is another important milestone to expand our local footprint.”

In June, Wallbox and Kensington Capital Acquisition (NYSE: KCAC) announced a business combination that is expected to result in Wallbox becoming a publicly traded company on the NYSE under the ticker symbol WBX.

All new London buses to be zero-emission

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has announced that all new Transport for London (TfL) buses will be carbon-neutral. TfL has committed to only ordering zero-emission buses from now on, and says that by the end of next year, ten percent of London’s buses will be zero-emission.

“London will no longer procure new diesel or hybrid buses, and will only procure zero-emission buses,” the Mayor announced, adding that London’s chronic air pollution is “a shameful health crisis.”

Khan also said that his previous commitment to make London’s entire bus fleet zero-emission by 2037 will be brought forward to 2034. He added that “with government funding the entire fleet could be zero-emission by 2030.”

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow beginning in October.

“In the year of COP26 and after setting out my ambition for London to be net zero by 2030, I’m committed to do all I can to help clean up the transport network and reduce its emissions,” said Khan. He added that the city’s entire bus fleet is now compliant with strict Euro VI emission standards—the same standards as London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone.

Mayor Khan has organized a conference on the decarbonization of buses across the UK. The upcoming Zero-emission Bus Summit will bring central and local government representatives, bus operators, manufacturers and other stakeholders together to discuss the adoption of zero-emission buses across the country.

TfL said the changes to London’s bus fleet will “give British bus manufacturers confidence in large orders enabling them to significantly ramp up production,” and help local authorities “to progress towards zero-emission targets that would not be possible otherwise.”

Unagi launches game-changing dual-motor, full-suspension electric scooter with huge tech

Unagi has just unveiled a paradigm-shifting electric scooter that flips the script on how full-suspension electric scooters should look and function. With a beautiful design and loads of automotive-level technology, the Unagi Model Eleven electric scooter is sure to shock the industry as it ushers in never-before-seen tech into the scooter space.

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