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This is down from 96% in 2013, when scrap tire recycling peaked. Three decades after we successfully eliminated 94% of the over 1 billion scrap tires stockpiled around the country, this report reveals that efforts to find and develop new uses for scrap tires have stalled.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Ioxus, a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for use in transportation, industrial and energy applications, has introduced high-temperature 1250 Farad (F) cells with Titan high-temperature technology. In 2013, a team from Rice University reported designing supercapacitor reliable at temperatures of up to 200 ?C

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Transportation Volt 2013 Design 299

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JULY 25, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) to 820 quadrillion Btu. World energy consumption by fuel type, 2010-2040. Source: IEO2013. Click to enlarge.

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2010 Transportation Fuel Energy 317

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JULY 12, 2018

Through the Tsinghua Daimler Joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation, the cooperation has been extended for an additional three years. The Tsinghua Daimler Joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation combines our exceptional research capabilities with Daimler’s long heritage in automotive innovation. —Prof.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

This begins an occasional series on “big science” tools hosted at US national laboratories that are being applied to support the development of technology innovations for clean transportation. National Transportation Research Center (NTRC). Toops (2013) Click to enlarge. Source: Toops (2013) Click to enlarge.

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Transportation Clean Cleaning Li-ion 316

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AUGUST 14, 2019

The transportation sector remains the largest source of GHG emissions in the state, and saw a 1% increase in emissions in 2017. Transportation sector emission sources include combustion of fuels utilized in-state that are used by on-road and off-road vehicles, aviation, rail, and water-borne vehicles, as well as a few other smaller sources.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

This article is the latest in a series that examines recent changes in various aspects of road transportation in the United States. from 2004 to 2013 (from 9,314 miles to 8,472 miles). from 2013 to 2018 (from 8,472 miles to 8,855 miles). This rate is on a rebound since 2013, but it is still down by 4.9% by Michael Sivak.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Maritime transport is crucial for supplying the BMW Group’s international manufacturing network and for the global distribution of vehicles. Maritime transport currently accounts for 50% of the BMW Group’s transport chain CO 2 emissions. The BMW i3 has been the global leader in its segment since 2013.

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BMW Transportation Emissions Climate Change 195

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JANUARY 25, 2014

2013 STO-AVT electric bus test results chart: BYD Electric Bus energy consumption (Wh/km) over speed (km/h). The first phase of a ten-month trial for a 40-foot BYD battery-electric bus (which commenced the Summer of 2013) was completed in Gatineau, Québec and Ottawa, Ontario in December. Click to enlarge.

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BYD Canada 2013 Transportation 291

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Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita (gallons). Consumption per capita (gallons). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

by 2013 (to 8,468 miles), and then increased by 4.3% by 2013 (to 21,866 miles), and then increased by 4.3% Both rates are on a rebound since 2013, but they are still down from 2004 (by 5.2% The main findings (summarized in the table below) are as follows: Distance driven per person increased by 40.9% by 2017 (to 8,834 miles).

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—Sivak 2013. The study includes a brief discussion on the effects of potential future changes in vehicle fuel economy, vehicle distance travelled, and vehicle load on the amount of fuel used for personal transportation. The study was supported by Sustainable Worldwide Transportation.

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel North America 311

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MAY 26, 2014

Researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Jülich Campus) are building and testing a light transport electric vehicle using a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) as a range extender. The SILENT-F project is based on a commercially available vehicle for in-house transport or municipal use.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The buses were tendered by the Bogotá City Public Transport Authority (TRANSMILENIO S.A.). A joint venture between Colombian business group Fanalca and international public transport operator Transdev used BYD’s integrated E-bus solutions to bid and successfully won the tender. —Lara Zhang, Regional Director of BYD Latin America.

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MAY 30, 2019

Less coal was used to produce heat and electricity but this was offset by higher industrial and transport emissions, the latter increasing for the fourth consecutive year. In Poland, the increase was mainly due to higher emissions from road transportation. Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU) increased by 0.7%

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2017 Emissions Gas Transportation 191

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Air Products is a world-leading industrial gas company that produces and transports hydrogen and other essential industrial gases to many customer facilities in Louisiana, across the US Gulf Coast and around the world. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products Chairman, President, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi announced a $4.5-billion

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Louisiana Hydrogen Clean Cleaning 391

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JANUARY 20, 2014

The company introduced its first generation of batteries in May 2013, and is currently sampling and selling 650 Wh/L batteries. Higher-energy and longer-lasting batteries are in high demand for numerous applications, from consumer electronics to electric transportation. Cui is a founder of the company. Cui is a founder of the company.

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Li-ion Companies Energy Battery 301

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Department for Transport (distances traveled) and the U.K. A substantial decrease between the mid 2000s and 2013. decrease from the peak in 2007 to 2013, while in the United States there was a 6.6% decrease from the peak in 2004 to 2013. A modest increase (rebound) between 2013 and 2018. above the 1993 value.

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United States 2004 2018 Personal 273

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Diamond Green Diesel established its first Ecofining unit at its Norco facility in 2013 with a capacity of 10,000 bpd. This standard requires a minimum volume of transportation fuels sold in the US to contain renewable fuel as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, it announced an expansion of that capacity to 18,000 bpd.

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Diesel Renewable Green Fuel 397

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MAY 27, 2020

These types of simultaneous NO x and greenhouse gas solutions are key to creating sustainable heavy-duty transportation and meeting our public health obligations. In 2013, CARB contracted SwRI to investigate potential approaches for achieving an ultra-low NO x target in three stages.

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Engine Emissions Diesel 2020 545

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

The consortium is supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and its program company, NOW GmbH. As early as 2013, in a first research project in Leipzig, BMW tested eleven hydrogen-powered tractors and forklifts in test operation and identified important fields of action for the current connection project.

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Hydrogen BMW Concept Fuel 384

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Climeworks’ new facility in Iceland transports the CO 2 filtered out of the air below the Earth’s surface, where natural processes then mineralize it. Water from the Hellisheiði power plant then flows through the facility and transports the carbon dioxide roughly 2,000 meters below the surface of the Earth.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon 446

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JUNE 25, 2013

At the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Washington DC, this week, the companies demonstrating their turnkey solution to V2G charging utilizing Boulder EV’s Electric Flatbed Utility Truck equipped with a 72 kWh battery pack and a Coritech 60kW DC Fast Charger System.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Sacramento BioDigester was built by a public-private partnership in 2013. Nationwide, renewable natural gas has grown more than 70% annually in recent years, facilitated by inclusion in the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2), which sets a minimum volume for the amount of renewable fuel that must be used in the transportation sector.

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Renewable Gas Transportation Fuel 170

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DECEMBER 27, 2013

In a paper published in the journal Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board , a team of researchers in France explore the economic and environmental outcomes of such a change. As on a volumetric basis, diesel contains more carbon than gasoline, the tax on diesel fuel would increase.

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Gasoline Tax Diesel Europe 294

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The energy intensity of a transportation mode is calculated by dividing the amount of fuel used by the number of passenger miles traveled and converting the result into a common measure—Btu (British thermal units) per passenger mile traveled. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. The flying data are for domestic operations of U.S.

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LATTICE is an undergrad project from Caltech that’s developing a modular robotic transportation system for the lunar surface that uses autonomous rovers to set up a sort of cable car system to haul things like ice out of deep craters to someplace more useful. at ICRA 2013 , here is video I took of StarlETH, one of ANYmal’s ancestors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Hyperloop technology, initially proposed by Elon Musk in 2013 as an innovative means for intermediate-range or intercity travel, is now being developed by several companies. Data indicate that energy use in the intercity market represents about 30% of total transportation energy use in the United States. passengers/vehicle) factors.

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Grid Transportation United States Energy Storage 277

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The field test in Gothenburg began in June 2013 and includes three plug-in hybrid buses, the batteries of which are rapidly recharged at the terminals. Volvo Buses is working together with the city councils, public transport authorities and providers to develop long-term sustainable solutions for public transport.

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Plug-in Volvo Plug MPG 362

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AUGUST 16, 2014

In 2013, United became one of the first airlines to offer an online cargo carbon calculator that customers could use to enter their individual shipment data and track emissions. United is introducing the business tool to allow cargo customers to more easily incorporate carbon-neutral business practices into their overall corporate strategy.

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Carbon Corporation International Emissions 262

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JULY 6, 2013

The results will be published in late 2013. The French approach follows on from the “H2 Mobility” initiatives in Germany ( earlier post ) and Great Britain ( earlier post ), among others, and is co-funded by the stakeholders themselves and the European Union within the HIT (Hydrogen for Transport Infrastructure) framework project.

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France Hydrogen International Vehicles 334

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MAY 19, 2022

GVB, the public transport company of Amsterdam, is further expanding its electric fleet with 84 new generation VDL Citeas. Part of this is that GVB provides completely emission-free bus transport in 2025. GVB provides public transport in and around Amsterdam. With this order, the GVB fleet will eventually be entirely VDL.

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Hyundai is one of leading company in the field of fuel cell technology having started the world’s first mass production of fuel cell electric vehicles in 2013. The dedicated hydrogen-powered SUV has the longest driving range among hydrogen-powered vehicles in the market. Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Hyundai Economy Motoring 329

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It envisages Thimphu as a “clean-electric” city in which transportation for its more than 100,000 citizens is powered by clean energy. Bhutan (population 725,296 as of a 2013 estimate ) generates sufficient hydro-electricity that clean energy is the country’s major export, but it must import fossil fuels to run its current vehicle fleet.

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The report provides information on the progress achieved in economic, environmental and social sustainability in 2013, and was drawn up in accordance with the G3 Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). In the reporting year 2013, average energy consumption per vehicle produced was 2,205 kWh, down 0.4% Think Blue.

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By combining Infinium Electrofuels production technology with MHI Group’s CO 2 capture technology and value chain solutions, MHI aims to accelerate the realization of a carbon-neutral society in Japan, alongside its existing strategies such as EV-oriented transportation, CO 2 recovery and carbon offsets.

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Japan Mitsubishi Production Carbon 243

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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice , 48, 109-122. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour , 21, 75-89. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour , 21, 75-89. 2013) “What drives range preferences in electric vehicle users?” Transport Policy , 30, 56-62.

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