Remove Cost Of Remove Grant Remove London Remove Standards
article thumbnail

London launches £110M scrappage scheme to prepare for expanded ULEZ

Green Car Congress

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launched a £110-million (US$133-million) scrappage scheme to support Londoners on lower incomes, disabled Londoners, charities, sole traders and business with 10 or fewer employees to replace or retrofit their old, polluting vehicles in order to be ULEZ compliant. Earlier post.)

Scrappage 199
article thumbnail

£30M Fund for Low Carbon Buses in the UK; New GM-Allison Hybrid Buses in London

Green Car Congress

These buses will all meet the latest air quality standards, delivering at least Euro V EU emission standards. The fund is not intended to pay the full cost of a low carbon bus. The maximum funding per bus will be the difference between the cost of the low carbon bus and the cost of its standard diesel equivalent.

London 150
article thumbnail

London’s T-Charge

Greenways Insurance

The T-charge, which is applied to all vehicles that do not meet Euro 4 emissions standard as well as quadricycles and motor tricycles that do not meet the Euro 3 Standard will be required to pay £10.00 per day to travel in central London. The post London’s T-Charge appeared first on greenwaysinsurance.co.uk.

article thumbnail

Study shows bamboo ethanol in China technically and economically feasible, cost-competitive with gasoline

Green Car Congress

Now, researchers at Imperial College London have shown that bioethanol production from bamboo in China is both technically and economically feasible, as well as cost-competitive with gasoline. At LHW pretreatment of 190 °C for 10 minutes, 69% of the initial sugars were released under a standardized enzyme loading.

Gasoline 351
article thumbnail

UK Awards 24M to 6 Low Carbon Vehicle Projects

Green Car Congress

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Plug-in Car Grant. The Government also set out the eligibility criteria for its Plug-in Car Grant. The level of the Plug-In-Car Grant has been agreed until 31 March 2012. 43 million (US$67.2

article thumbnail

Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

Cars That Think

resolution and can be installed on satellites, but it consumes a lot of power —a standard automotive unit with a range of several hundred meters can burn 25 watts. Governments once dominated space because the cost of building and launching satellites was so great. It is often not sensitive enough to pick out the. Robo-Shark, a 2.2-meter-long

article thumbnail

Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments.

Financing 150