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The Kiwi business journey to Carbon Zero

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Lower your company-wide emissions with sustainable vehicles. Businesses big and small will play a vital role in reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions through the transition to more sustainable transport. If you want to dramatically cut emissions, the best option may be to move your fleet to battery electric vehicles (BEVs).

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UC Davis, ITDP report finds shared mobility essential for realizing full benefits of electrification and automation

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In contrast, by encouraging a large increase in trip sharing, transit use, and active transport through policies that support compact, mixed use development, cities worldwide could save an estimated $5 trillion annually by 2050 while improving livability and increasing the likelihood of meeting climate change targets. —Fulton et al.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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Drive Electric has advocated for a comprehensive plan to decarbonise transport for the past two years. Our submission and inputs relate specifically to accelerating the uptake of e-mobility, but we recognise that decarbonising transport is much wider than that. The average fleet holds those vehicles for three to five years.

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Better Place Secures $350M Series B Round led by HSBC Group

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Better Place, the global provider of EV networks and services, has signed an agreement with an HSBC-led investor consortium for new equity financing of $350 million. Currently, Agassi said, the first full-fledged battery switch station is built and in operation and testing in a hanger in Israel. —Shai Agassi.

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