Sustainable transport

There will be no restrictions on vehicles entering central Athens as of Saturday, the Traffic Police said Thursday. 

The restrictions are enforced every year and are designed to reduce traffic congestion in downtown Athens. 

Avant Car runs Slovenia's biggest electric car sharing system, Avant2Go, with a fleet of 500 fully electric vehicles. Further expansion is planned, says director Matej Čer.

Additional locations and vehicles will be added in Slovenia to ensure broad coverage and meet the needs of users, Čer told the Slovenian Press Agency.

A new regulation that puts a cap on the prices of secondhand cars traded on online platforms have been published in the Official Gazette.

The regulation stipulated that the prices of secondhand cars cannot exceed that of new cars, the Trade Ministry said in a statement.

Toyota plans to make an all solid-state battery as part of its ambitious plans for battery electric vehicles, the company said yesterday, amid mounting criticism Japan's top automaker needs to do more to fight climate change.

Athens will be without trolley services on Thursday as employees announced a work stoppage on Monday between the hours of 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.

The employees will be holding their general assembly at the central trolley depot.

An altitude gain of 801 metres over 13.5 kilometres is a challenge for any cyclist. But every year in Slovenia hundreds do just that with old-school single-gear bicycles that were definitely not designed for the mountains.

The National e-Mobility Plan was posted for public consultation on Friday.

The plan includes measures for electric-mobility development in all transport sectors in order to reduce carbon emissions and support the green economy.

Slovenia will introduce a new public transport pass on 1 June to allow passengers to use all public transport available in the country except for city transport. Integration of city public transport into the system is planned by the end of the year, according to the Environment Ministry.

A serious accident occurred in the morning in front of the "Serdika" mall in Sofia.

Photos on social networks show how a tram hit and swept away a car.

The incident happened around 7.40 a.m. this morning. The driver of the car suffered minor injuries, an ambulance arrived at the scene of the accident.

Nearly 98,000 passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) were sold in Türkiye last month, pointing to a 62.7 percent increase from April 2022, data from the Automotive Distributors' and Mobility Association (ODMD) have shown.

Last month, 77,400 passenger cars were sold on the local market, translating into an annualized increase of 69.9 percent.