Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

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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Mearth

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The partnership aims to promote heavy-duty electric scooters, such as the Mearth GTS electric scooter , as a convenient and comfortable alternative to public or private transportation for big men in Australia. The brand aims to provide quality, efficient, portable, and fun scooters for a range of riders.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Shared bike services, e-bikes, scooters and mopeds, together known as micromobility, are proliferating in the urban landscape. Cities are redefining their relationship with transport and it’s some of the smallest vehicles that are leading the way. Recent changes in mobility. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Charged

MAY 28, 2020

BloombergNEF’s annual Electric Vehicle Outlook forecasts trends in electrification, shared mobility and autonomous driving. China and Europe will continue to be the leading EV markets, thanks to government policies—together they will represent 72% of passenger EV sales in 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. This review will ensure we understand the potential impacts of a wide range of new transport modes such as e-scooters, helping to properly inform any decisions on legalisation.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The shift to electric passenger cars could deliver a £24bn boost to the UK economy over the next five years, but the automotive industry and its supply chains must ramp up capacity 10-fold in order to meet growing demand, a joint government and industry backed report today estimates.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electric bike and scooter company Lime has unveiled plans to achieve net zero emissions across its business and value chain by 2030 by transitioning its operations to clean energy, investing in sustainable manufacturing and technologies, and switching its operations fleet to electric vehicles (EVs).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Paul Bedford, director of policy and sustainability at Deliveroo, welcomed the news and hailed it as a step in the right direction for the company's sustainability drive. "By

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  In deals, ~$400M for electric scooters and 3 mega $100M+ rounds for geothermal, solid flow batteries, and rural minigrids.    In recent weeks, the US and China have been facing off in a metals tug of war through a series of policy jabs.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

As more and more governments and auto manufacturers set their sights on a net zero emission future for road transport, the outlook for electric vehicles (EVs) looks brighter than ever. That means a whopping 55 million electric cars would have to be sold annually in less than nine years from now. But there are still over 1.2

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Transportation Electric vehicle Electricity Demand 53

Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Series of reports and policy documents published by the Department for Transport this week seek to advance 'future of transport' programme and spur new wave of low carbon transport innovation. Also included in the DfT bumper document release yesterday was an update on the nation's attitudes towards transport and technology.

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Transportation Innovation Government Scooters 87

Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 30, 2019

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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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 40

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 15, 2022

I’ve spent most of my career on this mission, from building my own company that helped clients innovate their business models to connect with communities and solve sustainability-related challenges to serving as the first government relations hire at the electric micromobility company Lime. Making more out of existing infrastructure.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

While governments have a significant role to play in helping usher in these new solutions; in the absence of certain policies, corporates and other stakeholders can make a big impact on the market for these emerging technologies by committing to buying specific volumes of these products.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

The government this weekend announced plans to fast track £250m of funding and accompanying policy reforms to deliver a "new era for cycling and walking" as the UK begins to ease to lockdown that has seen transport emissions plummet in recent weeks.

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Transportation Pollution Government Scooters 50

Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights cleantech news and offers perspective on industry, technology, policy, and investing. I’ve written positively about Navaya and autonomous electric shuttles in the past, and I am still very bullish on that modality. This is the upside-down of climate policy we’re living in right now?—?Oil

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. Facebook needs to put its advertising policies where its mouth is.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

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. All of the initial projects will be in the United States.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

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. All of the initial projects will be in the United States.

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Electric vehicle Policy Electricity Scooters 28

Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, for many countries and industries a combination of market failures and flawed policy regimes has long undermined efforts to boost recycling capacity and encourage re-use. The case for a more circular economy has always been strong and it continues to get stronger still as the scale of the climate crisis escalates.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 31, 2019

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, from policy changes to technology updates and investment news. Link Scooter companies continue to receive large investments , with European companies Wind and Dott both raising at least $30 million in Series A rounds. Link (Wind).

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Scooters Climate change Natural gas Investment 40

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Johnson was most convincing, as is so often the case, when he departed from policy detail and provided a hymn to the UK's "world-leading" clean technologies and innovations. We are disappointed that the focus is very much on build, and much less on better," lamented Mike Hughes of Schneider Electric UK & Ireland. "A

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Environmentally friendly policies, and impact entrepreneurship are fundamental to creating waste management solutions and making them scalable.

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Energy Monitor Waste Waste Plastics 65

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Top of the green list is a mooted Energy Bill, headed by plans announced earlier this month to create a new Future System Operator to manage the decarbonisation of Britain's electricity grid by 2035, according to reports in the Financial Times.

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The City Fix

APRIL 6, 2023

The momentum towards low-carbon and sustainable transport is growing globally, but the sector still lags behind many others and each country faces a unique path to travel. Political landscapes, regulations, industry interests, market set-ups, financial resources and social considerations all.

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Transportation Politics Carbon Sustainability 104

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 27, 2022

A virtual happy hour focused on community engagement for clean transportation projects and extending access to electric vehicles. As time passes, electric vehicles are comprising a larger percentage of vehicles sold, yet not always in the communities that need cleaner transportation options the most. June 16, 2022. Virtual Event.

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Transportation Electric vehicle Smart Cities Scooters 52

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The company said hydrogen generated from renewable sources will replace the carbon previously required for iron ore smelting, while the three blast furnaces currently in operation at the site will be gradually replaced by a combination of direct reduction plants and electric arc furnaces. China tops wind power rankings.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

Use of zero emissions vehicles such as buses, cars, bikes, and scooters need to be accelerated across the UK's cities in order to meet national decarbonisation targets, a new report has warned. The government has made decarbonising vehicle fleets a policy priority and made significant funding available for this task," the report states.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Sometimes you wait all year for a net zero policy strategy, and then several arrive at once. To help further accelerate the market for electric vehicles, a new regulatory regime for road vehicle CO2 emissions is to be consulted on, including "the possible introduction" of a zero emission vehicle mandate. Economic and Health Benefits.

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Transportation Government Aviation Fossil fuels 88

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

Related: NAWA reveals hybrid electric motorcycle at CES 2020 An Italian motorcycle family business Milan -based GPR Exhaust System was founded in 1968, so they been around for more than 50 years. Orlandi is proud of being an Italian company with Italy having a phenomenal number of motorcycle and scooter riders.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lenders still see projects in African nations as too risky, and only 2% of global renewable energy investment has been in Africa, even as nearly a billion people have little or no access to electricity. Toyota, among other Japanese automakers, is falling behind the electric push as EVs begin to take center-stage.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 61

EDF + Business

JUNE 18, 2020

Today, Lyft responded to stakeholder demands for rebuilding a better future — and in particular for climate action — through a bold commitment to reach 100% electric vehicles (EVs) on the Lyft platform by 2030. Knocking down policy barriers accelerates a clean economy. The post Lyft commits to 100% electric vehicles by 2030.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Pollution Health 124

Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing Top Topics Large oil and gas and utility companies are making net-zero pledges , as they look to get ahead of consumer and regulatory trends.

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

March Cleantech Roundup: Electric Delivery Vehicles | Data Center Efficiency | Coronavirus Emission Impacts Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Electric delivery vehicles are all the rage.

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Electricity Scooters Electric vehicle Policy 52

Clean Energy Trust

JULY 8, 2021

Without comprehensive policy supporting carbon removal solutions, these companies are performing a vital service?—?I Interesting chart of scooter hardware: Who uses which model, and who makes them. Of course, some of the policies have multiple goals, although the point is to show the cost-effectiveness of different policies.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Credit: Tesla Tesla and the Electric Vehicle Transition Tesla is seemingly always in the news, from its financial struggles to Elon Musk violating securities law, to a growing list of positives and successes (including scaling up Model III production). Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

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