sustainable transport
20 December 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is to provide $184m to accelerate the development and deployment of new efficient vehicle technologies.
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20 December 2010
The growing profile of the next generation of clean technology companies reflects not only the success of these enterprises, but the shifting of an industry towards the mainstream, according to Nancy Pfund, managing partner at venture capital firm DBL Investors.
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15 December 2010
Eco-friendly London taxi vehicle developer Eco City Vehicles (ECV) has welcomed moves by the UK capital’s Mayor to improve air quality in the city.
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14 December 2010
The UK government has given the go-ahead for nine electric and low emission vehicles to be eligible for consumer rebates, giving an undeniable boost to a few lucky manufacturers in the space.
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13 December 2010
Advanced clean energy transportation company Wrightspeed has secured a $1.2m grant that will allow it to develop its electric drive technology, after the California Energy Commission gave the green light to the investment.
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8 December 2010
Emerging clean energy technology company National Clean Fuels intends to partner with Washington-based DC Biofuels to establish a biodiesel joint venture demonstration project.
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7 December 2010
Public service provider Amey has signed an agreement with energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power to participate in its hydrogen on site trials, which are designed to test its transportable high pressure hydrogen refueling unit.
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1 December 2010
The US government needs to do more to help the fledgling biofuels business, according to an industry body.
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1 December 2010
Statue Cruises has signed an agreement that will see it develop the world’s first hybrid ferry to use hydrogen fuel, which will be located at a harbour in New York.
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30 November 2010
The US Environmental Protection Agency has lowered the minimum cellulosic biofuel percentage standard for fuel due to scarcity, as part of its finalised 2011 percentage standards set under the RFS2 renewable fuel standard programme.
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29 November 2010
Brazil’s largest city São Paulo is set to make ethanol buses part of the public transport system next year, the city’s mayor has announced.
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19 November 2010
The California Air Resources Board plans to revisit its lifecycle greenhouse gas emission modelling to take into account indirect land usage estimates for biofuel production under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
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18 November 2010
NRG Energy is set to launch the first privately-funded electric vehicle charging system in the US next year.
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15 November 2010
Building materials supplier Tarmac, the UK's largest quarrying company, will take part in a trial of fuel cell developer ITM Power's Hydrogen On-Site Testing (HOST) programme.
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12 November 2010
Chilean air operator Sky Airline has entered into an agreement with renewable fuel developer PetroAlgae that could see it use renewable jet fuel on its flights.
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11 November 2010
The average carbon emissions from new cars sold in Europe dropped five per cent in 2009, which is the biggest annual fall ever recorded, the European Commission revealed today, as it gears up to announce new rules to harmonise the monitoring of carbon emissions from cars in the European Union (EU).
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10 November 2010
The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) has claimed the impact of increased land usage under the European Union’s (EU) new renewable energy directive biofuel targets, will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions than would arise from the continued use of fossil fuels.
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10 November 2010
Massachusetts-based lithium ion battery developer A123 Systems is set to develop battery packs for a new electric passenger car made by the largest automaker in China, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC).
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3 November 2010
Brazil’s fifth largest exporter Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), an NYSE-listed company that exports soybean meal and holds 21 per cent of the country’s bottled oil market, plans to construct its second biodiesel plant in a move that will increase its production capacity by more than 50 per cent.
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28 October 2010
The expected rate of adoption of electric vehicles may be ‘overhyped’, according to a new report, which said persuading customers to switch to battery-powered vehicles may be more difficult than many predict.
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