Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) finds that, taken together with public transport, walking and cycling for short city journeys provide the greatest benefits for both human health and the environment in urban areas. If it replaces a motorcycle or a car trip, the environment and health effects are positive.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The research, published in the Science of the Total Environment journal, presents the first real-world data linking EVs to reductions in air pollution and respiratory issues. This study marks a significant step in understanding the impact of electric cars on public health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

Venti provides autonomous systems such as tug-trailers for goods movement in manufacturing yards, warehouses, and logistics hubs; self-driving prime movers for the transport of shipping containers; and small luxury community transports. The financing round was led by LDV Partners and Alpha JWC Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A new briefing paper from Imperial College London estimates that in 2021, 52% of all small particle pollution from road transport came from tires and brakes. Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a request for information (RFI) about advances in components, systems, and products that can withstand harsh environments and extended service lifetimes. ( Very high temperature environments. DE-FOA-0002385 ). High mechanical wear / stress conditions. Alloy embrittlement conditions.

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Innovation News Network

APRIL 10, 2024

The post Forever Flight: Building multi-modal transportation hubs appeared first on Innovation News Network. Forever Flight and its distributed energy network provide solutions for airports to adopt clean technologies and sustainable aviation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Specifically, to expand options for producing, transporting, and using fuel, the five companies intend to unite and pursue the three initiatives of: Participating in races using carbon-neutral fuels; Exploring the use of hydrogen engines in two-wheeled and other vehicles; and. The challenge of transporting hydrogen fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2020

The Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted to include CO 2 emissions from the maritime sector in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). Maritime transport remains the only sector with no specific EU commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Background. This is more than the emissions of any EU member state.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2024

Baltimore City is planning to replace several diesel-powered school buses with electric units later this month, serving 350 students with zero-emission transportation to school every day. The post Baltimore City will transport 350 students every day with EV buses appeared first on TESLARATI. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment. Transportation currently accounts for 29% of all U.S. In turn, passenger cars and light trucks (the focus of the standards in question) account for 60% of all transportation emissions. Opinion by Michael Sivak.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%

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Environment Transportation Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Developing safe and cost-effective storage and transportation methods for hydrogen is essential but complicated given the interaction of hydrogen with structural materials.

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Energy Storage Hydrogen Clean Cleaning 415

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Earlier this month, members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee proposed a higher target (35%) than the European Commission (30%) for new heavy-duty trucks to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, with an intermediate target of 20% by 2025. The MEPs also advocated support for European battery manufacturing.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

As more and more cities aim to improve their city environments by lowering emission […] The post Volvo Trucks introduces FM Low Entry electric truck optimized for cleaner and safer city transport appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Cleaner Volvo Transportation Electric 104

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

in 2019, according to latest official data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). However, CO 2 emissions from the transport sector continued their increasing trend in 2019. For road transport, the increase was mostly due to higher gasoline consumption in passenger cars.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. Patel describes several efforts around the world to adapt SMRs to the marine environment. It’s easy to look at the challenges posed by climate change and sigh.

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Transportation Green Climate Change Climate 78

Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2020

House of Representatives transportation bill, released Wednesday. The INVEST in America Act (Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation) would allocate $494 billion over five.

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Transportation Charging Carbon Gas-Electric 210

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 23, 2022

UK Environment Secretary George Eustice made some notable comments recently that got picked up by The Daily Mail. Speaking to MPs on the Commons’ environment, food, and rural affairs committee last month, UK Environment […].

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Environment Pollution Vehicles Electric Vehicles 138

Teslarati

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Swedish Transport Workers union joined IF Metall’s fight against Tesla and plans to hold a sympathy strike. A few days ago, Sweden’s Transport Workers union announced it would stop collecting waste from local Tesla workshops starting December 24, 2023, joining other labor groups organizing sympathy strikes with IF Metall.

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Sweden Transportation Tesla Waste 105

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

A team of researchers in China suggest that, in the context of promoting the use of clean fuel vehicles and increasing vehicle fuel efficiency, CO 2 emissions of China’s urban passenger transport sector could reach a peak of 225 MtCO 2 in 2030. A paper on their study appears in the journal Energy Policy.

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Transportation Emissions China Taxi 316

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years. A target of 1.5

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Transportation Green Economy Climate Change 333

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The award will expand the university’s original CAV proving ground, known as Mcity ( earlier post ), by integrating the physical test track with a software simulation environment. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $5.0

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Transportation Michigan Environment Connect 284

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Volvo Trucks, having recently started sales of electric trucks for urban transport, believes that electrification can become a competitive alternative also for heavier trucks. We see great potential for heavy-duty electric trucks for regional transport and construction in the longer term. —Lars Mårtensson.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

The chemical composition of atmospheric particles at a given location depends not only on the local environment and sources, but is also influenced by the history of the particles reaching the sampling location. Long-distance transport also affects the chemical composition of aerosol particles through the origin of the air masses.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

continued] The post T&E’s Guide to EU Transport 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica. From sketching a blueprint to implementing a greenprint for the EU’s economy. As Europe approaches the 2024 EU elections for.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

The “dither and delay” manoeuvres of the UK government concerning the zero emissions car and van mandate could risk billions of pounds worth of private investment going into the UK charging network which could endanger the whole decarbonisation of transport, Europe’s leading clean transport NGO, Transport & Environment, has said.

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Transportation Electric Vehicles Environment Clean 69

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Second UN Global Sustainable Transport Conference concluded with a call to accelerate progress towards achieving sustainable transport that would result in major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and in improving the lives of millions of people. But these new technologies have to work for everyone.

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Sustainable Transportation Transportation Emissions Climate 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Our study yielded new insights into the fundamental mechanisms governing hydrocarbon transport within shale nanopores. —Hongwu Xu, an author from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Division.

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Gas Transportation Production Insight 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The California Air Resources Board approved a $533-million plan to fund clean car rebates, zero-emission transit and school buses, clean trucks, and other innovative, clean transportation and mobility pilot projects. billion for low-carbon transportation projects from the cap-and-trade program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Multiple step-change reductions in the environmental/climate footprint of combustion-based transportation systems, while maintaining the fitness for purpose and convenience for the end user, are achievable. A fuel tailored to these operating conditions and ambient environments might be preferred for optimum energy conversion to useful energy.

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Transportation Future Fuel Climate Change 255

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 4, 2022

Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. The Clean Cities Campaign (CCC) that compiled the ranking says […].

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Clean Cleaning Transportation Environment 91

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

To date, eight AGVs are operating outside the production workshops at the Martorell plant to automate the transport of parts. Each outdoor AGV and their carriages make up a 25-meter convoy with a maximum transport capacity of 10 tonnes and cover routes of 3.5 SEAT’s AGVs are based on ASTI’s Tribot 10T. kilometers in length.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

An association of transit and transportation agencies has formed the Automated Bus Consortium (Consortium), a collaboration designed to investigate the feasibility of implementing pilot automated bus projects across the United States.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Doing Well by Doing Good Sustainability and eco-friendly decisions are leading trends in the transportation industry today, and for good reason. According to the Environmental Protection Agenc y (EPA), the transportation industry is responsible for 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2023.

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Transportation Green Waste Fleet 61

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Current practice typically requires collection of an air sample using specialized equipment, transport of the sample to the lab, and time-consuming analysis using expensive equipment to identify and quantify the pollutants present in the environment.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 26, 2021

Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Sam Hargreaves The UK will have enough renewable resources to meet its electricity demand for transport in 2050, a new T&E analysis finds. However, this is only possible if it reserves the use of e-fuels for shipping and aviation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Volvo Trucks announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks ( earlier post ) in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainable transport solutions in city environments. Different types of transport require different types of driveline solutions. —Jonas Odermalm.

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