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Scania leading full-scale autonomous truck platoon project in Singapore; 4-truck convoys

Green Car Congress

These will be conducted by Scania and Toyota at their respective research centers in Sweden and Japan, to leverage their existing development work. Autonomous vehicles and platooning are cornerstones of future sustainable transport systems. Trucking as we know it today is a highly labor-intensive industry.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Cervero believes Stockholm, Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil are two good examples of the TOD principle. Earlier post.)].

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Our submission and inputs relate specifically to accelerating the uptake of e-mobility, but we recognise that decarbonising transport is much wider than that. E-mobility is an important component to a zero emissions transport system, but is still just a component. . We also don’t need to ‘reinvent the wheel’. Japan has a 2035 deadline.