SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s public and private sectors will team up to develop a wireless charging infrastructure for electric trucks. The Ministry of Environment on Wednesday signed a business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Korea Automobile Environmental Association and e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. Under terms of the agreement, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean auto parts maker Myong Shin Inc. is set to develop electric trucks in collaboration with Chinese automobile manufacturer Geely Auto Group. The company said it held a virtual meeting with Geely New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group on Monday and signed an agreement on the basic framework of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Thursday that it will replace all delivery motorbikes and aged diesel-fueled parcel trucks with electric models by 2025 in cooperation with related industries and the central government. At present, a total of 215,000 delivery motorbikes are operating in the city, of which full-time [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group is beginning test runs for an integrated logistics solution that uses 1-ton Porter electric trucks to deliver food products. Hyundai announced Sunday that it will begin the test run for a food delivery service using electric trucks from July to October. The trial service will be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Global Logistics Co., a logistics unit of South Korean retail giant Lotte Group, said Thursday it will expand the operation of eco-friendly cold chain electric trucks that provides temperature-controlled environments during transportation and storage. After completing the trial operation of cold storage electric trucks in April and May, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the competition for eco-friendly delivery heating up, Coupang Inc. has introduced electric trucks. The South Korean e-commerce firm will deploy 10 Calmato EVs (electric vehicles) at the Coupang Logistics Service Delivery Hub in Daegu next month and is currently setting up recharging stations for the electric trucks. The [...]