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H2-Share hydrogen-powered heavy-duty rigid truck starts trials in the Netherlands; mobile refueler

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A 27-tonne hydrogen fuel cell rigid truck built by VDL started its first demonstration with BREYTNER as part of the EU-funded H2-Share project in Schelluinen, the Netherlands. The aim is to demonstrate the truck and the mobile refueling station at 6 locations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Earlier post.)

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Carbon emissions in port of Rotterdam drop more swiftly than national average

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In the period 2016-2020, the port of Rotterdam reduced its total carbon emissions by 27%. In 2020, Rotterdam achieved a 12% reduction in emissions, compared to 8% in the Netherlands as a whole. of the Netherlands’ total carbon emissions: a share that several years ago was 16%.

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DHL Express is piloting first hydrogen truck throughout Deutsche Post DHL Group

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Together with its customer Apple, DHL is piloting the heavy-duty vehicle, equipped with a fuel cell range extender from VDL, between Breda, the Netherlands, and Brussels, Belgium, as part of the Interreg NW Europe program H2-Share, coordinated by WaterstofNet. It transports deliveries of DHL Express’ customer Apple.

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Neste selects Rotterdam as a location for its possible next world-scale renewable products refinery

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The company has now concluded a thorough study phase concerning the two possible locations, Porvoo, Finland and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The key aspects contributing to the overall cost difference are logistics costs, site-specific construction costs and availability of low-carbon hydrogen supply.

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sennder and Cabot Corporation complete one of Europe’s first cross-border transportations using a heavy-duty electric truck

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Each charge took approximately 80 minutes and occurred in the Netherlands, a country with one of the densest charging networks in the world. With shippers such as Cabot increasingly striving for low-carbon transportation solutions, the industry is reaching a turning point.

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Researchers link massive atmospheric carbon injection to end-Triassic mass extinction

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Researchers in the Netherlands have linked massive carbon injections in the atmosphere to the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME, ~201.4 In a paper published in the journal Science , they present compound-specific carbon-isotope data of long-chain n -alkanes derived from waxes of land plants, showing a ~8.5 —Ruhl et al.

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Wärtsilä to design and equip two zero-emissions battery-powered ferries

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The ships are to be built for Norwegian operator Boreal Sjö at Holland Shipyards in the Netherlands. These battery-powered ferries represent the future in environmental sustainability, and their design is the result of the years of R&D that Wärtsilä has invested in smart marine solutions to lower the carbon footprint of shipping.