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THINK, the Scandanavian electric vehicle manufacturer, and its largest fleet customer, Move About the Norwegian car-share fleet operator, is supplying 15 THINK City courtesy cars to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

All conference delegates will be able to use the urban EV during their time at the summit. The THINK City EV’s have a range of up to 180k/km (circa 108 miles) and also emit zero emissions. As yet the electric battery powered car has been sold to selected markets such as Norway, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Switzerland and most recently Spain. The vehicles have been targeted at municipal fleet holders, governments and utility partners.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is focussing on the two biggest causes of work-related fatalities. Their conference in May 2009 will cover the types of incidents related to someone who is at work at the time or on the road.

Both of these two areas account for hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries every year. The RoSPA’s Practical Transport Solutions conference (in association with the Health and Safety Executive) is on May 14th at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham and aims to provide practical advice to companies on managing these risks. The aim being to reduce the number of incidents each year.

There are a number of specialist speakers plus case studies by Tesco.com and Radius Systems Limited. Cars, light commercial vans, HGV’s and all other vehicles will be covered.

Roger Bibbings, the RoSPA’s occupational safety adviser says ” The Practical Transport Solutions conference will highlight a series of transferable safety tools that can be used in the management of vehicles at work – both on the road and on site”.