Yearly Archives: 2021

Ice cold – but without the CO2: 100% electric reefer trailers released for a pilot with Unilever

Amsterdam, 29.09.2021: Businesses pilot breakthrough innovation in temperature-controlled transport Four companies have collaborated for a nine-month pilot in the Netherlands, which will see diesel refrigeration systems in semi-trailers replaced by zero-emission battery-electric prototypes: The partnership is between equipment service provider TIP Trailer Services, global consumer goods company Unilever, Greentech experts maxwell+spark, and transport company Daily Logistics Group (DLG).…

The resilience of an abandoned forklift

Outside a cold store an abandoned forklift is angled crookedly into the road. The body is scratched and dented, the seat up, a tangle of wires exposed. Mess and debris surround it. Smoke still billows from its warehouse in the background. There is something jarring about the lifelessness of a usually productive and busy piece…

Fairtree Elevant Ventures invests in green energy business maxwell+spark

LEIDEN, 20th SEPTEMBER 2021: Fairtree Elevant Ventures, a European growth equity fund based in the Netherlands, has announced its investment into Maxwell and Spark, a green energy business producing the first commercial battery electric truck refrigeration system in the world, along with a range of lithium-ion batteries for materials handling equipment, as well as industrial static power…