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Rental e-scooters to be made legal on UK roads from Saturday

Business Green

Department of Transport announces that local authorities across the UK can apply to trial e-scooters as part of a year-long trial that will test the cost-effectiveness and convenience of the low-carbon mobility solution embraced by other European countries. Any local authority can now apply to trial rental e-scooters, the government said.

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Customized connectors allowed unu to develop an innovative electric scooter that’s easy to recharge and built for urban life 

Charged

Powering Clean Urban Transportation Electric scooters have the ability to transform urban transportation. Taking Charge of the Future What if you could design a scooter that could be charged at home or work? That’s the question that pioneering German startup unu asked while working on their second-generation, fully electric scooter.

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Panasonic: How a green technology drive can help deliver on internal carbon goals

Business Green

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. Can a company that helps produce clean technologies harness those same technologies to meet its own climate goals?

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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. . Progressive cities, many in Europe, are building zones in downtown centers that are banning fossil-fuel vehicles and incentivizing zero-emission models. Europe is moving at a much faster trajectory toward electric vehicles than the U.S.,

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

Envirotec Magazine

Recycling and reusing them is “crucial” to secure ongoing supplies for regional manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) essential for defence, renewable energy generation, LEDs and other green technologies, and to the competitiveness of European firms. Read more in the final public report.

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Reversing Beeching and electrifying scooters: £500m fund to reopen train lines closed in 1960s leads raft of green transport initatives

Business Green

Re-opening train lines, building new stations, digitising bus timetables, and legalising electric scooters are among a raft of initiatives being pursued by the Department of Transport (DfT), as its steps up efforts to rebalance the UK economy and decarbonise the country's transport sector.

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'On the cusp of a transport revolution': Green mobility projects secure £90m funding boost

Business Green

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. Emerging technologies are ripping up the rulebook and changing the way people and goods move forever," he said.