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The Future of Transportation is Green: A Pollution-Free World

The Environmental Blog

Unfortunately, our current transportation systems don’t seem to have a path to a pollution-free world. In fact, the transportation sector remains to be one of the most polluting bodies we have right now. Electric vehicles such as cars and buses cover longer distances with little-to-no carbon emissions.

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A wave of electric workhorses is coming

GreenBiz

Electrifying these commercial vehicles will be potentially even more important than passenger vehicles for reducing carbon emissions and for cleaning up local air pollution. Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way. Electric Vehicles.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. One of Genentech's electric buses, made by BYD.

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Lyft plans to electrify all of its cars by 2030

GreenBiz

The decade-long goal could result in millions of electric vehicles purchased for ride-hailing operations, encourage greater electric vehicle charging deployments and motivate stronger city, state and federal policies that could make EVs more economical. Lyft recently announced a first-quarter loss of $85.2

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May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation |…

Clean Energy Trust

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. The other points out that fuel prices aren’t why people buy electric vehicles?—?they

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July Cleantech Roundup: Cheap Solar, Scooter Funding, fuel from manure, and More!

Clean Energy Trust

Link Scooter companies continue to receive large investments , with European companies Wind and Dott both raising at least $30 million in Series A rounds. If you were wondering, scooters are not going away. Both companies point to their scooter hardware as a competitive advantage. I’m skeptical on that front?—?while Link (Wind).

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'On the cusp of a transport revolution': Green mobility projects secure £90m funding boost

Business Green

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. This review will ensure we understand the potential impacts of a wide range of new transport modes such as e-scooters, helping to properly inform any decisions on legalisation.