Did you know that 21 September is World Zero-emissions Day? It is used to create awareness around daily gas and particulate emissions from our use of fossil fuels. These dirty emissions lead to global warming, air pollution and resulting extreme weather conditions. The aim of the day is to burn no fossil fuels for 24…
Efficiency, reliability and safety are qualities that are essential for batteries in both the consumer and industrial space. Since the increase of lithium-ion battery penetration into the consumer goods sector in the mid-2000s, and the accompanying increase in portable devices, battery failures have received much public attention. As these failures are relatively few, is the…
Rotterdam, 20 July 2022 An innovative 9-month collaboration between equipment service provider TIP Trailer Services, global consumer goods company Unilever, transport company Daily Logistics Group (DLG) and green-tech experts maxwell+spark, is estimated to have saved the emission of more than one ton of CO2 per month per refrigerated reefer so far. The pilot’s aim was to replace…
As of April 2022, maxwell+spark Netherlands, has a new home in Rotterdam. The premises consists of office and warehouse space and is the company’s first footstep into the EU market. The new location of Spaanse Polder is an industrial area of Rotterdam and central to the logistics industry. It is also close to centres of innovation…
As of the 1 June 2022 companies can apply to the Dutch government for a purchase subsidy to close the gap between the cost of a diesel truck and a zero-emission truck. This move makes a green, more sustainable freight and transport industry in the Netherlands a possibility. This is welcome news as the Netherlands…
Written by Nicole Rimensberger We have seen photos of polar bears hunting on land devoid of ice – shown as insignificant white flecks against black rock. We have seen photos of polar bears balancing on receding, broken ice, their habitat dissolving around them. Through some very iconic wildlife photography, the polar bear has come to symbolise…
Written by Nicole Rimensberger In the wake of the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26), the Glasgow Climate Pact emerges, after weeks of talks, as the tool to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5⁰C. However, whether the Pact will deliver on this depends largely on promises turning into action, namely phasing…
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).…
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…
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…