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Neste announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. SAF is widely acknowledged as a key element in achieving the aviation industry’s ambitious emission reduction goals. Amsterdam (AMS) in the Netherlands, and Helsinki Airport (HEL) in Finland.

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JULY 12, 2017

Applied to the all-new electric TX, the technology allows for a range of more than 400 miles including well over 70 miles range with zero emissions. RMC, one of the Netherlands’ largest taxi operators, has been appointed as the importer and operator.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

T&E estimates this to be equivalent to around 9% market share of new registrations in 2018. The are currently about 1,600 electric buses are on European roads, with another 1,600 on order (as of mid-2018). The lag between orders and deliveries is usually 9-12 months; T&E expects all these electric buses to be on the road by mid-2019.

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APRIL 29, 2019

BP, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), and the Port of Rotterdam will collaborate to explore the opportunity of making green hydrogen via water electrolysis for BP’s refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which has the potential for significant reductions in CO 2 emissions. —Ruben Beens, CEO of BP Netherlands.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Evolution of taxi drivers, PHV drivers (England), and Uber drivers (London) compared to taxi and PHV CO 2 emissions (UK). The number of Uber drivers in London almost doubled in three years (from 25,000 in 2016 to 45,000 in 2018), accounting for roughly half the total PHV licence number. million users in London in 2019 and with 2.7

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APRIL 15, 2020

The operator Connexxion, providing transport services for South Holland province in The Netherlands, signed a contract for the delivery of 20 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. South Holland (Dutch: Zuid-Holland) is the most populous province of The Netherlands, located in its western part, along the North Sea coast.

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MARCH 30, 2020

The vehicle features a zero-emission VDL electric powertrain alongside a fully electric VDL refuse collection superstructure. Since the end of 2018, DAF CF Electric 4x2 tractor vehicles have been in operation for inner city distribution at leading Dutch and German transport companies and supermarket chains. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ). The Coradia iLint trains have run more than 200,000 km with zero CO 2 emission in passenger service in Germany and Austria and has been successfully tested in the Netherlands.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The report shows that the three largest exporters of used vehicles—the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States of America (USA)—exported 14 million used light duty vehicles (LDVs) worldwide between 2015 and 2018. Through its ports, the Netherlands is one of the exporters of used vehicles from Europe.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The hybrid drives combine a modern diesel engine with an electric motor and batteries to recover braking energy, reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by up to 25%. The contract covering the conversion of the first three of these vehicles to MTU hybrid drives is planned to be signed by the end of 2018.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

DB Schenker has already been using the FUSO eCanter in Berlin since 2018 delivering packaged goods in the city center. We are very happy to take our partnership with DB Schenker to the next level with these 36 locally emission-free FUSO eCanter trucks. million kilometers driven locally emission-free.

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JUNE 18, 2020

The sooner Uber and taxis go 100% electric, the sooner citizens will enjoy cleaner air and quieter neighbourhoods, the planet will have less climate-wrecking emissions and drivers will earn more money. It kicked off last November in the US, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Bio-Fuel Oil is expected to deliver 80-90% well-to-propeller CO 2 reduction versus fossil equivalents, and contains no SO x emissions—all without any requirement for engine modifications. ORNL report: “ Understanding the Opportunities of Biofuels for Marine Shipping ” ORNL/TM-2018/1080.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Peter Mock.

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MARCH 29, 2019

This was largely because February marked a month of uncertainty for many of the bigger European markets, such as Spain, where registrations fell by 10% amongst political turmoil, and the Netherlands, where a change in tax on pure electric vehicles contributed to the 15% drop in overall registrations.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

—Haneen Khreis, lead author of the study and an associated researcher at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Haneen Khreis, Marta Cirach, Natalie Mueller, Kees de Hoogh, Gerard Hoek, Mark J.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Global oil and gas major Shell has outlined how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society’s progress towards achieving net zero. This target covers the emissions from its operations and the emissions from the use of all the energy products it sells.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

For some time now, it has no longer been a matter of small orders, but of large orders for a few dozen vehicles destined for Cologne, Wuppertal and QBuzz, among others, in the Netherlands. They can now drive silently and emission-free up to 50 km/h, whereas previously this was only up to 20 km/h.

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APRIL 9, 2018

A new study by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands, with colleagues at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, shows that climate policies can strongly increase metal demand. —Deetman et al. Sebastiaan Deetman, Stefan Pauliuk, Detlef P. 7b05549.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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APRIL 30, 2017

The agreement calls for Shell to provide the LNG fuel for the new generation of SCF Group’s 114,000 deadweight ice-classed Aframax tankers that are scheduled to come into operation beginning in Q3 2018. LNG will increasingly play a larger role in helping the shipping industry meet new emissions regulations.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

million) grant from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the JIVE 2 project will deploy 152 fuel cell electric buses across 14 European cities throughout France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. The JIVE 2 project will run for six years from January 2018.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Over time the move could cut UK carbon dioxide emissions by up to 18%. Domestic gas usage accounts for 9% of UK emissions. In an effort to reduce annual carbon emissions, there is presently a concerted effort from researchers worldwide to offset the usage of natural gas. Enriching natural gas with hydrogen (HENG) is one option.

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APRIL 1, 2018

Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts. 8b00261.

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MARCH 9, 2018

A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities that may contribute to impaired cognitive function in school-age children. Therefore, we cannot warrant the safety of the current levels of air pollution in our cities. —lead author Mònica Guxens, MD.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

To be named thyssenkrupp Tata Steel, the planned joint venture will be managed through a lean holding company based in the Netherlands. The codetermination structures in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain will be retained. It is to have a two-tier management structure comprising a management board and a supervisory board.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Gasum and Anthony Veder, the Netherlands-based shipping company specialized in gas transportation ( earlier post ), have signed an agreement for a long-term time charter of a new ICE Class 1A Super LNG carrier. The 18,000 cbm vessel will be built at German shipyard Neptun Werft and delivered at the last quarter of 2017.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

A newly released analysis produced by Beacon Economics for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank Next 10 has found that California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market is on track to meet or exceed a target of 1.5 And zero-emission vehicles are following this pattern. million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

Stricter emission laws and the technological advances in electric drives will accelerate the trend towards e-mobility in the medium term, Bain said. In terms of international electric car market share, Germany with 0.6% (as of 1Q 2015) is far behind Norway (33.1%) and the Netherlands (5.7%).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The Dutch Ministry of Transport expects that the charge, to be introduced in 2012, will halve the number of traffic jams as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Each year the base tariff will rise until 2018. Tags: Green credentials cost Dutch green tax Netherlands pay-per-mile polluter road tax.

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JULY 18, 2016

The Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot, which Daimler will showcase at the upcoming IAA 2016 in Hannover in September, is already making its first public journey on part of Europe’s longest BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) route in the Netherlands, linking Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with the town of Haarlem.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain will offer LPG-versions in addition to the regular gasoline and diesel range. Apart from reducing emissions, LPG also offers financial benefits through the tax advantages it enjoys in many countries.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Based on the experimental data, the team concluded: The higher the CN, the higher the amount of EGR required to sufficiently extend the ID into PPC territory and achieve associated low PM-NO x emissions, whereby the ignition dwell should be somewhat greater than zero. A CN higher than 60 with EGR rates above 30–40?wt% 2018.02.111.

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