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will provide maintenance and distribution support services for all of the vehicles. The company believes that wider adoption of alternative-fuel, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in transportation will play a key role in reducing global emissions, while diversifying and expanding renewable energy solutions.
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The US has up to now adhered to the user-fee principle in financing transportation infrastructure—i.e., users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. In the meantime, cars and trucks have become more fuel-efficient. States use similar mechanisms. —Huang et al.
a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, has already secured lease agreements for 87 heavy-duty natural gas trucks from customers looking to take advantage of the fuel cost savings and environmental benefits of alternativefuel powered vehicles. Ryder System, Inc., Earlier post.).
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FP7), including six calls for transport with funding of approximately €243 million (US$344 million). Over the full course of FP-7, research under the transport theme will have a total of €4.1 The transport-related calls are the following: FP7-TRANSPORT-2010-TREN-1. to innovation in air transport. transport policy.
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billion over the FY 2015 Enacted level, to maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing and manage the research, development, and production activities and associated infrastructure maintenance and modernization needed to meet national nuclear security requirements. Within the $10.7
billion worldwide—by 2050, this may not be achievable through improvements to the traditional internal combustion engine or alternativefuels: the traditional combustion engine is expected to improve by 30%, so achieving full decarbonisation is not possible through efficiency alone.
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