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Universal Hydrogen secures additional $62M in financing to accelerate first test flight of hydrogen-powered regional aircraft to 2022

Green Car Congress

The company anticipates entry into commercial service in 2025 with a certified retrofit conversion kit for existing ATR 72 and De Havilland Canada Dash-8 regional airliners and a green hydrogen fuel services offering. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

Green Car Congress

With aviation representing one of the most difficult-to-address sectors for emissions, Twelve is scaling E-Jet fuel manufacturing capacity to meet rapidly growing demand from customers looking to reach net zero climate goals.

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Expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil to areas previously occupied by crops or pastureland leads to local cooling

Green Car Congress

A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1067.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

With the pandemic, with climate change issues coming to the forefront, with a change in Administration, there’s just incredible interest in EVs right now.” DEED road rally in Juneau, Alaska. The Tucson Electric Vehicle Association in Arizona showcased conversions and self-built vehicles.

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

That legislation led to conversations between the landlords and the tenants, or the owners and the associations,” he explained. He decided to take personal action by joining Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. to make a push for resolutions toward developing climate action plans at the county level,” LePage explained.

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EV Radar: December 2021

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Join the conversation at EV Daily on Facebook. Deutsche-Bahn, an operator of local and regional trains in Germany, is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040! Dramatically below freezing or not, Alaska has become the happy home to an electric school bus. We’ll keep you informed. Get EV Radar in your email every two weeks.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Even more perverse is the fact that the abysmal energy conversion of an ICE—ranging from 30% for a modern gasoline design to as much as 50% for a comparable diesel—means there is plenty of waste heat available for heating the cabin, whereas the high efficiency of the EV drivetrain means a supplemental heat source is required, especially in colder climates (..)