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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

The young e-scooter companies also own large "fleets," although not in the traditional sense. . Certain types of vehicles — including transit and school buses, delivery vans and light-duty cars — can save fleet owners considerable money when they're switched to electric. The definition of fleet is evolving. that fit fleets' needs.

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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. Tesla's Model Y is cool. Electric tractors: Yep, those diesel-powered tractors plowing farms across America could be powered by batteries one day. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Retooling a shuttered factory to build electric trucks: Q&A with Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns

Charged

Things soon started to look a bit sunnier, as GM sold the plant to Lordstown Motors, founded by Steve Burns, who previously founded Workhorse Group, an EV builder that’s been around since 1998, and has supplied electric vans to UPS, FedEx and other fleet operators (we ran a feature article on the company in our May/June 2017 issue).

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August Cleantech Roundup: Energy Storage is Growing, Cleantech Startup are Fundraising, and…

Clean Energy Trust

August Cleantech Roundup: Energy Storage is Growing, Cleantech Startup are Fundraising, and Scooters are Driving Themselves Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology policy, and investing. Link If the Scooter Rides Itself, What Am I Here For?

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'Circularity gap': How fostering a circular economy could slash global emissions by over a third

Business Green

Housing, including commercial and industrial buildings, generates around 13.5Gt of emissions every year, the report estimates, consuming vast quantities of virgin resources and relying on the abundant use of carbon-intensive materials such as cement and steel, while also creating significant emissions from heating and cooling.

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

🛵 Ilectra Motor Group , a Jakarta, Indonesia-based electric motorbikes developer, raised $50M in Series B funding from Horizons Ventures, Foxconn, and Brama One Ventures. India produces a new electric scooter every 90 seconds. Building batteries in the sand. Please meet the SRWT , aka smol residential wind turbine.