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Big Changes Ahead for Used-Vehicle Transport

Green Fleet Magazine

Analysis: When it comes to transporting electric vehicles, there are questions on all sides about weight, safety, and hauling.

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Toyota Motor Europe starts transporting vehicles by cross-channel rail freight to reduce emissions

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has started transporting new cars by cross-channel rail services between its Valenciennes Vehicle Logistics hub in France and Toton (UK). TME together with its logistics partners, Getlink and CAT Group, will initially transport around 70,000 cars per year—equivalent to 270 trains per year.

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks presents the eActros LongHaul for long-distance transport at IAA Transportation

Green Car Congress

Following the market launch of the eActros for heavy-duty distribution transport in 2021, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is presenting the eActros LongHaul ( earlier post ) for the first time at the IAA Transportation 2022 in Hanover. This will offer customers numerous other possible use cases in fully electric transport. That means 1.2

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Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

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A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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DOE intends to award up to $37M to advance EV battery recycling, transportation and design

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notice of intent to release a funding opportunity that would provide up to $37 million from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding to advance electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling, transportation, and design (DE-FOA-0003120). million plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in the US.

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Electric vehicle charging solutions: Could transportable stations be the answer?

Innovation News Network

British Forces Cyprus has awarded Beam Global a £820,000 contract to provide electric vehicle charging solutions. The post Electric vehicle charging solutions: Could transportable stations be the answer? Learn more here. appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Cenntro introduces two new electric vans at IAA Transportation

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Cenntro Electric Group Limited and its subsidiary Cenntro Automotive Europe GmbH introduced two new all-electric commercial vehicles at IAA Transportation 2022 in Hannover, Germany. The two new vehicles, the Logistar 260 (LS260) and the Logistar 100 (LS100), join the LS product line now available globally in Class 1 to Class 4.