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E-scooters: 'Fine balance' needed to ensure green benefits, research finds

Business Green

By replacing short car journeys e-scooters can cut CO2 by up to 90 per cent, but robust regulation needed, Cenex warns. E-scooters are seen as a low carbon form of travel that can help reduce congestion and improve city-centre journey times.

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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. Katie Fehrenbacher. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00.

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Unfavorable times for the electric scooter industry

AGreenLiving

Once billed as an environmentally-friendly and enterprising venture, the electric scooter-sharing micromobility business has not lived up to the promising hype but is now looking dismal. Could this be the end for e-scooters? Related: We love electric scooters — but is the Bird trend actually bad for the environment?

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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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Despite the hydrogen hype, electricity will drive net zero transport

Business Green

Cars, buses, trucks, scooters and even planes are going electric, and Britain needs an electricity grid able to cope with it, writes Onward's Ted Christie-Miller. Other solutions for the HGV challenge need to be floated, such as electric-cabled slow lanes on motorways. The UK's record on transport emissions is poor.

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Electric and hybrid vehicles account for nearly a quarter of auto market in June

Business Green

However, in sharp contrast the number of new registrations for battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles actually rose year-on-year, climbing over 73 per cent to 24,470 units. This is likely to be particularly true of electric vehicles (EVs), which are currently subject to long waiting lists.

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A wave of electric workhorses is coming

GreenBiz

A wave of electric workhorses is coming. When most folks think of the electrification of transportation, they naturally think about electric cars. Electrifying these commercial vehicles will be potentially even more important than passenger vehicles for reducing carbon emissions and for cleaning up local air pollution.