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CN purchases Wabtec’s battery-electric locomotive

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CN has purchased Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric freight locomotive ( earlier post ). CN’s Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad (B&LE) Company received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to help with the purchase of the battery-electric locomotive.

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Maersk purchases 25 Volvo FH Electric trucks for container transports in Germany

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Maersk has purchased 25 Volvo FH Electric trucks in Germany. The purchase of fully electric trucks is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport with more than €4.3 Volvo’s FH Electric offers battery capacities from 180 - 540 kWh (2-6 battery packs), supporting a range of up to 300 km (4x2 tractor trailer).

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Nel ASA receives purchase order for 20MW alkaline electrolyzer from steelmaker Ovako

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Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 20MW alkaline water electrolyzer from Ovako , a leading European manufacturer of engineering steel. The purchase order has a contract value of approximately €11 million with equipment delivery in late 2022. —Jon André Løkke, CEO at Nel.

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Casterra to sell castor seeds for cultivation to leading oil and gas company; $9.1M initial purchase

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Initial purchase orders, valued at an aggregate of $9.1 Based on Casterra’s analysis, the purchase orders reported can support the production of approximately 1.5% Casterra has built its castor genetic assets based on a broad collection of more than 300 castor lines from more than 40 different geographic and climatic regions.

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Union Pacific Railroad to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for testing in yard operations

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Union Pacific Railroad plans to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for testing in yard operations. The combined purchases and upgrades to yard infrastructure are expected to exceed $100 million, representing the largest investment in battery-electric technology by a US Class I railroad.

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Green NCAP LCA study shows detrimental climate and energy impact of increasing vehicle weight, including EVs

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The results of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy demand of the cars tested by Green NCAP in 2022 show that the current and continuous trend towards larger and heavier cars, significantly increases the negative impact on climate and energy demand. million vehicles were sold, out of which 12.2%

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DHL Global Forwarding purchasing 60M liters of Sustainable Marine Fuel from GoodShipping

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With the latest purchase of approximately 60 million liters (approximately 16 million gallons US) of Sustainable Marine Fuel, DHL will reduce a total of 180,000 tonnes of tank-to-wake (TtW) CO 2 e on both FCL (full container load) and LCL (less than container load) shipping until 2024.

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