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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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A wave of electric workhorses is coming

GreenBiz

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. Tesla's Model Y is cool. But electrifying the long tail of commercial transportation is just as awesome. (If

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility.

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From lower carbon flights to greener traffic lights: Google unveils package of sustainable updates

Business Green

The moves include a new service called Nest Renew that allows Nest thermostat users to automatically shift electricity usage for heating and cooling to times when energy is cleaner or less expensive. Of course, the most sustainable choice often doesn't involve a car at all.

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

Charged

The compelling story of a shuttered plant being resurrected by the growing clean energy economy has attracted a lot of press coverage. There’s basically one trim package as well. and you say, “Well, you see all the electric bikes and electric scooters, those are all hubs.” You got a big back seat and the appropriate size bed.

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Motorcycle parts from GPR Italia are recyclable

AGreenLiving

Orlandi is proud of being an Italian company with Italy having a phenomenal number of motorcycle and scooter riders. GPR offers exhaust systems for more than 1200 models of scooters and motorcycles. They have an extremely onerous energy consumption and negative environmental impact,” Orlandi said.

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A wave of electric workhorses is coming

AGreenLiving

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. Tesla’s Model Y is cool. But electrifying the long tail of commercial transportation is just as awesome. (If