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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

In 2019, the company added 400 electric vehicles to its fleet including delivery trucks, forklifts and airport ground service equipment and by the end of that year was operating close to 3,000 EVs. Decarbonizing FedEx's airline fleet will be even more difficult than moving its trucks to batteries.

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Commercial trucking's future is in the details

GreenBiz

Commercial trucking's future is in the details. Let’s start with the obvious first: Feeding North America requires trucks and truck drivers. Trucks require energy. Over 70 percent of all freight moved in the United States is on trucks. Over 70 percent of all freight moved in the United States is on trucks.

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Sponsored content: Rigid trucks tick all the boxes for sludge transportation

Envirotec Magazine

Our contract work is very particular, so the team road-tested the truck over two days through the rolling Yorkshire Dales to see if they could handle the job. “We The fact Volvo allowed us to field-test the truck in our more challenging locations sealed the deal. The demonstrator performed exceptionally and ticked all the boxes.

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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.

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Will the game-changing Tesla Semi really go into production this year?

Charged

A viable electric Class 8 truck would be a massive disruptor of the global transport system, and since the unveiling of the Tesla Semi in 2017, we’ve been on the edge of our ergonomic bucket seats, waiting for it to appear on highways. Alas, Tesla’s production schedule has suffered more delays than the LA Freeway. Source: Electrek.

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Fire at Oil and Gas Waste Site Raises Safety Concerns Around Possible Radioactive Accidents

DeSmogBlog

Initial news reports described the facility — located in Dallas Pike, 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh — as a truck stop cleaning station. And the agency confirmed that it was the volatile nature of this waste — transported inside trucks arriving at the site — that helped cause the blaze.

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Bollinger Motors explores a new market with the DELIVER-E delivery van concept

Charged

There were no former Tesla executives and no deep-pocketed Chinese investors, and the strategy was not to build a luxury sedan, but rather a rough-and-ready electric work truck. Bollinger says it will work with an unnamed manufacturing partner to build the DELIVER-E vans and trucks in the US. Production is scheduled to begin in 2022.

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