Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Air cargo operator pledges to invest in sustainable fuels, carbon capture research, and fleet electrification in bid to meet new climate goals. FedEx also announced it is investing $100m to set up a new centre for national carbon capture at Yale University where researchers will look into ways to scale up carbon sequestration technologies.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

Tarmac places order with Renault Trucks for cutting edge 'carbon neutral' battery electric mixer truck. Tarmac has announced plans to deploy the UK's first battery electric mixer truck, paving the way for a significant reduction in carbon emissions and air pollution at its construction sites.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Customized chargers from Danish company GodEnergi will be used to rapidly charge the truck’s battery during offloading and onloading at each stop, which usually takes around 15 minutes. Volvo Trucks and Danfoss have partnered on several levels to advance electric transport technology.

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Charged

MARCH 2, 2023

IVECO Bus , headquartered in Turin, Italy, has signed a framework agreement with Flemish government-owned public transport enterprise De Lijn for an initial sale of 65 E-WAY articulated electric city buses, with an option for future sales of up to 500 units. Deliveries are to begin in 2024, and will potentially continue over six years.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral Electricity 108

GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2021

GM also showed off a new electric Cadillac luxury vehicle and more details about its next-gen battery technology. . Panasonic touted a new battery containing less than 5 percent cobalt that it's working on, while LG and auto parts maker Magna provided more details of their joint venture to sell electric vehicle power trains.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 28, 2022

The Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA) and Batteries Europe are integrating their working groups. The six working groups following the structure currently in use by Batteries Europe and covering topics along the battery value chain are: ? WG1 on New and Emerging Technologies ? WG3 on Advanced Materials ?

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Charged

JANUARY 16, 2023

The latest addition to the fleet is a Nikola Tre Class 8 semi-tractor, which will be used to move paving equipment, transport construction materials and pull other heavy equipment at LAX work sites. The Nikola Tre BEV features a 733 kWh battery pack, and claims a range of up to 330 miles. Source: Nikola Motor.

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Electricity Carbon-neutral Electric vehicle Transportation 124

Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In December, Danish maritime transportation company Maersk will add a 600 kWh battery system on board the container ship Maersk Cape Town in a trial run to improve vessel performance and reliability while also reducing CO2 emissions. This can reduce generator maintenance requirements. Source: Maersk.

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Charged

MAY 1, 2021

which serve the urban transport, delivery, distribution and waste collection markets. tractor to meet the needs of regional and inter-regional transport, as well as an EV designed for urban construction, by 2023. Its electric lineup consists of the D Z.E., D Wide Z.E. and Master Z.E.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The UK's record on transport emissions is poor. While surface transport emissions are currently at the same rate as they were thirty years ago, aviation emissions have soared by 86 per cent in this timeframe. Cars and vans are on their way to carbon neutrality. This leads us on to another major system challenge: aviation.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 29, 2024

Multi-industry technology company ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vulcan Energy to jointly establish design, engineering, execution, and operations plans for the latter’s Zero Carbon Lithium project in the Upper Rhine Region in Germany.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . locations in 2021. Above photo courtesy of Ways2H.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Dr John Graves, Associate Professor at the Institute for Future Transport and Cities, said: “We are delighted to be part of this ground breaking initiative with Severn Trent and Organics Group. These include its use as a potential fuel for heavy vehicles that may not be suited to battery electrification.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The strategic plan for Horizon Europe for 2025-2027 sets out the overarching driver for the climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ to achieve a fair transition to climate neutrality and build resilience in the EU by 2050.

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Energy Energy Europe Carbon-neutral 52

Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The 42 Proterra ZX5+ 40-foot e-buses pack a total of 19 megawatt-hours of battery storage capacity, and the charging installation will crank out a total of 9 megawatts of power. Proterra prides itself on delivering a comprehensive EV solution for commercial fleets, including battery systems, buses and charging infrastructure.

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Electricity Carbon-neutral Transportation Batteries 60

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Call for powers and resources to shape local energy markets, decarbonise transport, and tackle emissions from homes and offices. The call was for new powers and resources to be devolved from Whitehall to shape local energy markets, decarbonise transport and tackle emissions from homes and offices. Addressing energy market failure.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Komatsu is aiming to reduce its global emissions by a whopping 50% by 2030, with a further goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. On the other hand, GM has set a target to achieve full carbon neutrality in both its products and operations by 2040. The mining industry is no exception.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Barbados Transport Board recently received 33 BYD battery-electric buses, and two more of the 30-foot buses are to be delivered by December. The bus delivery is an important milestone for the Barbados National Climate Change Plan, which has set a national goal of 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Electricity Carbon-neutral Climate change Transportation 88

Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. But according to a growing body of research, those efforts leave something out: Most of the planet-warming effects of flying aren’t from carbon dioxide. And again, those schemes are all about carbon.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Aviation Energy Monitor 119

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

In the last few years, contributing to the carbon neutrality efforts of our customers through intelligent energy management has become increasingly important. Here are some of the ways in which we are supporting companies in their journey to decarbonise manufacturing operations.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral IoT 147

Charged

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Daimler Truck North America, NextEra Energy Resources and BlackRock Renewable Power plan to form a joint venture to deploy a nationwide US charging network for medium- and heavy-duty battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles. Construction at the first sites is set to begin in 2023. The sites will also be available for light-duty vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A new partnership aims to ensure that Denmark is able to power its electric vehicles (EVs) with 100% renewable electricity 24/7 and to leverage EVs and battery storage to expand renewables’ use for grid stability. In 2020, the Danish government announced a plan to have 775,000 EVs or hybrid vehicles on its roads by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The ambition is similar to that of Swedish greenfield battery manufacturer Northvolt. The battery maker has developed a full-scale greenfield manufacturing business in less than five years of operations. “This case, which is replicable, is key to deliver on Europe’s climate-neutrality pledges,” he added.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While hydrogen may have an important role to play in future, batteries are the better option for rail decarbonisation in the short term, argues Hitachi Rail CEO Andrew Barr. As an engineer I find the speed of innovation in batteries incredible. Batteries and hydrogen. Becoming a climate change innovator with batteries.

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Batteries Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Climate change 49

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Utilities facing the challenge of decarbonizing their power systems see green hydrogen as an important addition to batteries to store wind and solar power for use when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. The challenges for green hydrogen as a power grid resource.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Natural gas 130

Charged

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM has thrown down the electric gauntlet to the auto industry, announcing plans to become carbon-neutral by 2040, and to set “science-based targets” to achieve carbon neutrality. However, GM has backed up that admittedly “aspirational” goal with some more concrete near-term action.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

If we can do all those things, we think we're going to get to the point probably somewhere around mid-decade, as the battery cost curve keeps coming down, where it's going to be so compelling that drivers will want to do this," said Arons. "We New California emissions rules just around the corner.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Scooters Carbon-neutral 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Echion Technologies, another successful bidder, is developing batteries that will charge from overhead wires and use that charge to ‘leapfrog’ across unelectrified section of track and, effectively, create self-charging trains – truly, ‘the first of a kind’. G-VOLUTION LTD. ECHION TECHNOLOGIES LTD. EMINOX LIMITED.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Cynics made some mileage from the almost The Thick Of It -style title juggling, with the event undergoing a hasty re-christening from “green day” to “energy security day” (as Carbon Brief noted ), as it became clear that future oil and gas exploration remained a key component of the government’s plans.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 28, 2022

The new facility will be entirely carbon-neutral throughout the construction process and continue to operate at a carbon-neutral level during vehicle production, according to the statement. Have you read?

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Startups Electricity Carbon-neutral Electric vehicle 52

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. The German-headquartered company first started collecting carbon data in 2020, and as such the data unveiled yesterday provides the first year-on-year comparison of its climate impact.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Technology Carbon 81

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Germany’s goal of putting 15 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on the road by 2030 is currently behind schedule as the global automotive industry struggles to procure key components such as microchips and the basic raw materials used in the manufacture of high voltage batteries including the elements lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Carbon-neutral Batteries 52

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A fleet of electric vans which charge-up wirelessly have started road testing in Edinburgh as part of a government-funded trial aimed at accelerating the development of autonomous freight transport, it was announced this morning. The £1.6m

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