This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
NexDrive recognizes the power of connecting Canadians with hands-on experiences like test drives and EV education as a way to accelerate the transition to sustainabletransportation. Their support helps us drive meaningful change, one community and one driver at a time.
If you’ve been following automotive trends, you’ve likely noticed the radical shift towards electrification, connectivity, and autonomous systems reshaping how we think about transportation. Furthermore, climate concerns have pushed sustainability to the forefront of transportation planning.
Several countries have introduced policies and subsidies to encourage the adoption of hydrogen-powered public transport systems, creating a favorable environment for the growth of the FCEB market. billion, reflecting a significant shift toward sustainabletransportation solutions.
Unlike opinion-driven discussions, this report is rooted in data, quantifying the consequences for both the industry and the environment. The findings highlight how these changes could slow adoption, affect consumer affordability, and ultimately influence the pace of emissions reductions in the transportation sector.
Several factors are driving this growth, including increasing urbanization, traffic congestion, and the push for sustainabletransportation. Smaller vehicles are easier to navigate in crowded urban environments, making them suitable for self-driving applications in the future. Why Are Micro EVs Becoming Popular?
Through the Tsinghua Daimler Joint Research Center for SustainableTransportation, the cooperation has been extended for an additional three years. The Tsinghua Daimler Joint Research Center for SustainableTransportation combines our exceptional research capabilities with Daimler’s long heritage in automotive innovation.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has formed a 12-member advisory group charged with promoting sustainabletransport systems to further growth and development while protecting the environment and limiting the impact on climate change. Most of that will be caused by a projected surge in the number of vehicles around the world.
Export credit agencies that shift their focus towards facilitating the diffusion of sustainabletransport vehicles and promote sustainable infrastructure investments. The private sector, given the right market signals, that can invest in and create new technologies and services that support sustainabletransport.
The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for SustainableTransportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, transportation accounts for nearly 30 percent of Tennessee’s end-use energy consumption. In connection with Clean Air Month, TDEC will host a recognition ceremony and sustainabletransportation forum on 7 May 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee. —Bob Martineau.
Sustainabletransportation. Sustainabletransportation funding requests include: Vehicle technologies. Within the $10.7 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72 The Science Budget Request includes: $1.85
Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainabletransportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Reflexivity.
In the long run, electrification will be key to achieving a sustainabletransport system for heavy vehicles as well. This project received financial backing from Enova , which is a state enterprise owned by the Ministry of Climate and Environment in Norway. —Karin Rådström, Head of Sales and Marketing at Scania.
The FuelEU Maritime initiative will require ships carrying EU trade to progressively switch to sustainable alternative fuels. Biofuels, on the other hand, do not offer a sustainable alternative for shipping, the groups say, as crop-based biofuels emit more than the fossil fuels they replace and there will not be enough advanced biofuels.
With shippers such as Cabot increasingly striving for low-carbon transportation solutions, the industry is reaching a turning point. Furthermore, with shippers and governments committing to net zero by 2040 or 2050 with sizable emissions reductions by 2030, the industry needs options for sustainabletransportation.
With the world’s focus shifting towards sustainable energy, electric cars have emerged as a promising solution for the future of transportation. In this article, we will explore the benefits of electric cars and their impact on the environment, as well as the challenges they face and the future of electric cars.
USTMA is encouraging additional research to assess stormwater runoff from roadways to increase the state of knowledge on constituents in roadway runoff, the potential impact of roadway runoff on the environment, and effective strategies to treat roadway runoff.
As regards product characteristics, such as the driver’s environment, reliability and safety, all our vehicles meet the same high standards. From Volvo Trucks’ perspective, the transition to more sustainabletransport is largely about making the shift as smooth as possible for haulage operators, so that they can begin to adjust.
To complement the 2008 data, the European sustainabletransportation NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) wrote a short report which includes shipping and aviation figures and aims at clarifying the actual contribution of the transport sector to the EU’s CO2 emissions.
million in grants from last year’s investment plan for electric and natural gas fueling stations, alternative fuel readiness plans, fuel cell delivery vans, the establishment of a sustainabletransportation center, and more than $16 million in natural gas vehicle incentives: $16.6
The trucks, developed for Alberta’s unique operating environment, will be 64-tonne (gross vehicle weight) B-train tractor-trailers capable of traveling up to 430 miles (700 km) between refueling. They will be operated by Alberta trucking companies Trimac Transportation and Bison Transport. million to the AZETEC project.
Daimler has already obtained automated driving test licenses in Germany and the US, and has continuously pushed forward automated driving development in China, working together with its local partners to adapt its technologies to China’s traffic environment for consistently improving the safety of all road users as its first concern.
In other words, while vehicle and fuel technologies clearly play a major role, so does demand reduction and the development of smarter, sustainabletransportation systems. Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand.
The European Environment Agency today published provisional data on average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars sold in the EU in 2010, showing a 3.7% Had weight not increased, the CO 2 reduction would have been 5%, claimed Transport & Environment (T&E), a European sustainabletransport NGO.
Volvo LIGHTS is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment – particularly in disadvantaged communities.
The energy projects chosen seek to improve electric vehicle batteries, to model the impact of renewable energy policy on the economy and the environment, and to better understand the combustion biodiesel fuels. Integrated energy-economy-environment (3E) modeling for clean vehicle development in China.
Under Navigant Research’s aggressive scenario, in which e-bicycle become a stronger alternative to passenger vehicles in urban environments, global e-bicycle sales could reach as many as 44.4 This growth in demand is expected to result in revenue for global e-bicycle sales of $13.5 billion by 2023. million units annually by 2023.
Developed by Endesa in conjunction with the CITCEA centre of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), this system is currently being validated in a lab before being rolled out to Endesa’s Smartcity in Malaga for testing in a real environment with real users.
Vehicles capable of being charged directly from the road during operation could become the next pioneering step in the development towards reduced environmental impact, and this is fully in line with our vision of becoming the world leader in sustainabletransport solutions. —Niklas Gustavsson.
According to the International Energy Agency’s recently released report during the G20 Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Japan, hydrogen is currently enjoying unprecedented political and business momentum, with the number of policies and projects around the world expanding rapidly. Earlier post.)
Still, ABI notes, V2X is a critical component—in combination with short-range radar-based ADAS and cellular communication—to build proactive safety systems and ultimately realize the ambition of autonomous vehicles and a zero accident environment.
Volvo Trucks announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks ( earlier post ) in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainabletransport solutions in city environments.
The Tsinghua University Daimler Joint Research Center for SustainableTransportation, funded by an annual contribution of more than 3 million RMB (US$472,000) by Daimler, is supporting future-oriented research projects relating to sustainabletransportation in the China-specific road environment context.
Östersund was presented with the European Mobility Week Award in 2015 in recognition of the council’s work providing sustainabletransport options in the city. This project with Scania and ABB will extend their work in sustainabletransport. They will contribute to our aim of achieving fossil-free transport by 2030.".
Heavy-duty electric trucks can help improve the work environment for drivers and construction workers thanks to low noise level and zero exhaust emissions during operation. —Lars Mårtensson, Director Environment and Innovation, Volvo Trucks. —Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks. —Lars Mårtensson.
The urban environment is where eTrucks can truly demonstrate their strengths. MAN is changing from a manufacturer of commercial vehicles to a provider of intelligent and sustainabletransport solutions. Top: MAN eTGM. Bottom: MAN eTGE. They have zero local emissions and therefore contribute to improving the city air.
Daimler has already obtained automated driving test licenses in Germany and the US, and has continuously pushed forward automated driving development in China, working together with its local partners to adapt its technologies to China’s traffic environment for consistently improving the safety of all road users as its first concern.
An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. —Future of Mobility Roadmap. Myth Busting.
Among the other findings were: PEV Pioneers tend to have higher engagement in technology- or environment- oriented lifestyles, and express higher levels of environmental concern than Mainstream buyers (NVOS respondents). Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. Source: “Electrifying Vehicles”. Click to enlarge.
LiDAR uses light in the same way a bat or dolphin uses sound waves, and can bounce infrared light off everything within 200 feet to generate a real-time 3D map of the surrounding environment. The sensors are so sensitive they can sense the difference between a paper bag and a small animal at nearly a football field away.
A large scale roll-out of electric cars on European roads would result in significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower levels of certain air pollutants, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment. However, larger numbers of electric vehicles will not be enough for the shift to a low-carbon economy.
The transition to sustainabletransportation and energy continues despite attempts to stop it. The misinformation and disinformation may slow it somewhat, but overall, it simply is too critical for human health and the environment to be shut down. Politics and public policy are important but they are not everything.
Future-ready infrastructure: Nikola’s zero-emissions infrastructure is expected to be established in advance of the anticipated surge in adoption of Nikola’s hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, demonstrating the Company’s commitment to sustainabletransportation solutions.
vehicle sharing pilot program ( earlier post ) launched by General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) recently concluded after two years’ operation in a real-world environment. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 Designed, engineered and built by a team at GM China, the EN-V 2.0
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content