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Mitsubishi Fuso to deliver 20 eCanter trucks to Australia Post

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. In October, Australia Post will become the first local customer to integrate the electric light-duty truck into its daily operations. The eCanter, which falls under the 7.5-ton

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A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion

EV Central

And, as a result, new passenger cars in Australia use 40 per cent more fuel than those in the European Union. READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! That’s a disturbing, upsetting number, and one the flies in the particularly bald face of Peter Dutton, but it doesn’t surprise me, personally, at all.

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Car rental company makes it easier to monitor CO2

Green Cars News

Leading European car rental company, Europcar is now providing information about the CO2 emitted by its vehicles on its rental invoices, making it easier for customers to monitor their environmental impact. It will also soon be available in Australia. Tags: Green credentials co2 emissions environment Europcar rental.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

The Transport & Environment study has discussed the potential ways of measuring, comparing and limit GHG emissions from batteries, as well as proposing tools. This means a battery’s CO2 footprint will be regarded the same no matter if it will allow 500 charge and discharge cycles or 5,000. Potential to decrease the CO2 impact.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

Shipping is responsible for an estimated 100 crore tonnes of CO2 per year, and 10% of that is shipping oil. of electricity comes from sources that emit no CO2. Lithium is a metal that is mined in the deserts of Australia, China, Argentina, and Chile. Australia is the largest producer of Lithium in the world.

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US and Swiss researchers model two very high carbon emissions scenarios

Green Car Congress

For example, the AllCoal scenario showed a 30–80% precipitation reduction in Southern Europe, Central America, and Southern Australia as well as increases of 50–200% in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, Northern Canada and Siberia. In 2010, global CO2 emissions were 96% of those found in the A1F1 scenario. —Sanderson et al.

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