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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

The top 25 most sustainable fleets. 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.

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Figuring out the details: EV batteries and the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

An exploded view of an EV battery. A circular economy for electric vehicle batteries appears to be still some way off, but metal recycling expert EMR claims to be making inroads, and to be helping shape the future of the sector. EMR recycles thousands of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) every week at its more than 60 UK sites.

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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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Mearth to Release New Robust Electric Scooters for Everyday and Off-road Travel

Mearth

Mearth will release a new line of electric scooters called the GTS Series on 4 December, Friday. Mearth, one of the best-selling electric scooters in Australia, is set to release a new line of foldable electric scooters named the GTS Series on 4 December, Friday. The GTS Series will include two models, the GTS and the GTS Max.

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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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2019 in review: Top 3 corporate sustainability trends

EDF + Business

By Daniel Hill This blog is a follow up to an earlier blog published: Top 3 Trends in Corporate Sustainability for 2019. Earlier this year, I identified the top 3 corporate sustainability trends that all business leaders should be watching in 2019. Trend 2: Longstanding sustainability champions will be joined by the majority.

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Recycling e-waste should be a legal requirement in the EU, says report

Envirotec Magazine

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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