Carbon and Transportation

Study finds transporting food and ingredients generates 20% of carbon emissions in the global food system

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JULY 5, 2022

With a growing consumer demand for diverse food products, transportation has emerged as a key link in food supply chains. We estimate the carbon footprint of food-miles by using a global multi-region accounting framework. They found that, in 2017, food transportation added emissions equivalent to 3.0 GtCO 2 e (3.5–7.5

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NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a comprehensive vision for deeply decarbonizing transportation. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 28% of total carbon emissions.

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New Fraunhofer membrane technology enables co-transport of hydrogen and natural gas

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APRIL 3, 2021

This marks a major step forward in the transportation and distribution of hydrogen as an energy source. However, the means of transporting this “green” hydrogen from the producer to the consumer are not established; Germany still does not have an extensive distribution network for hydrogen. © Andreas Junghans GmbH. © Fraunhofer.

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Kawasaki, Subaru, Toyota, Mazda, and Yamaha partner on producing, transporting, and using carbon-neutral fuels, including hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

jointly announced that, toward the achievement of carbon neutrality, they will take on the challenge of expanding fuel options through the use of internal combustion engines at the (three-hour) Super Taikyu Race in Okayama on 13-14 November. Participating in races using carbon-neutral fuels. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.,

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Kia EV6 achieves product carbon footprint certification from the Carbon Trust

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Kia EV6 ( earlier post )has achieved product carbon footprint certification and ‘ Carbon Measured ’ label from the global climate change and sustainability consultancy the Carbon Trust, becoming the first Korean vehicle manufacturer to achieve the certificate. The EV6 is the first model to be launched under this new strategy.

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Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Starting immediately, Deutsche Post is offsetting any unavoidable CO 2 emissions due to mail transport with investments in internationally recognized and certified climate protection projects at no extra charge. For the last ten years, DHL has transported all parcels for private customers with its climate-friendly “GoGreen” service.

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Barbados receiving 35 BYD electric buses; first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

BYD delivered the first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean, opening up an exciting new chapter in the region’s efforts to tackle climate change. The Barbados Transport Board recently received 33 BYD battery-electric buses and two more of the 30-foot buses will be delivered by December.

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sennder and Cabot Corporation complete one of Europe’s first cross-border transportations using a heavy-duty electric truck

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

sennder, Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder and Cabot Corporation, a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, transported one of Europe’s first zero-emission cross-border heavy duty loads. Cabot recently announced its ambition to achieve net-zero emissions globally by 2050.

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IEA: global carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded strongly

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MARCH 3, 2021

The Covid-19 crisis in 2020 triggered the largest annual drop in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions since the Second World War, according to IEA data, but the overall decline of about 6% masks wide variations depending on the region and the time of year. But our numbers show we are returning to carbon-intensive business-as-usual.

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Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

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MARCH 10, 2022

Based on the work, Keliber’s lithium hydroxide will have a smaller carbon footprint than most of the competitors’ products. The two production routes that show the greatest emissions intensity represent well over half of the current global production of lithium carbonate and hydroxide. Keliber plans to begin production in 2024.

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Tevva and Vattenfall collaborate to develop zero-emission transport solution; electric with hydrogen range extender

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APRIL 26, 2021

Electric truck company Tevva and Vattenfall signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunity to provide a complete zero-emission transport solution for businesses looking to reduce the overall carbon impact of their operations. Tevva is an electric truck company with optional range extension technology that allows its 7.5-19t

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Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and TotalEnergies signed an agreement on their joint commitment to the de-carbonization of the road freight in the European Union. The two companies remain fully committed to working with the consortium, a key vehicle to support the rollout of hydrogen-powered transport in Europe in the coming decade.

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California Energy Commission approves $2.9B investment for zero-emission transportation infrastructure

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The 2022-2023 Investment Plan Update increases funding for the CEC’s Clean Transportation Program by 30 times compared to 2019 with an additional $2.4 —CEC Lead Commissioner for Transportation Patty Monahan. 15 million zero- and near-zero-carbon fuel production and supply. $15 15 million for low-carbon fuels. $10

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Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

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APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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ARPA-E awarding $9M to six projects modeling optimal deployment for low-carbon intermodal freight transportation system

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AUGUST 11, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $9 million in funding to six projects developing technology to model the low-carbon intermodal freight transportation system of the future. Award amount: $1,500,000) University of Tennessee, Knoxville will develop a cognitive digital twin for the US intermodal freight transportation system.

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Aviation H2 selects liquid ammonia as carbon-free fuel of choice

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APRIL 28, 2022

Chiefly its advantages include high gravimetric and volumetric hydrogen density that makes it lighter and easier to transport while providing a greater energy conversion rate. Additionally, worldwide transportation and handling of liquid ammonia has been around for many years, making ammonia as a carbon-free fuel even more appealing.

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DNV forecasts oil demand in transport sector to halve by 2050

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MAY 8, 2023

Electricity’s share in transport will grow from 1% today to 23% in 2050, according to DNV’s latest Transport in Transition report. Despite oil demand in the transport sector forecast to half by 2050, the present pace of the transition still falls severely short of the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Toyota Motor Europe starts transporting vehicles by cross-channel rail freight to reduce emissions

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has started transporting new cars by cross-channel rail services between its Valenciennes Vehicle Logistics hub in France and Toton (UK). TME together with its logistics partners, Getlink and CAT Group, will initially transport around 70,000 cars per year—equivalent to 270 trains per year.

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Hapag-Lloyd will use advanced biofuels for the transport of DHL shipments

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JULY 8, 2022

Biofuel will play a significant role in the upcoming years on our path to becoming net-zero carbon by 2045. This project will bring us a step closer to offering our customers biofuel-powered transportation as a commercial product and thereby to supporting them in their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.

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KAUST researchers show blending ammonia with DME yields low-carbon fuel with combustion properties similar to gasoline

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APRIL 6, 2022

The development of such fuels could provide an option—in addition to electric cars—for “clean” power for the transportation sector. Ammonia as a fuel provides a promising outlook to reach zero-carbon emissions, but its certain characteristics hinder its direct application in combustion devices. —Binod Raj Giri.

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New proton ceramic reactor stack for highly efficient hydrogen production and carbon capture in a single step

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JULY 30, 2022

The ceramic membrane reactor also separates carbon dioxide more efficiently, enabling the greenhouse gas to be easily transported and sequestered. The process also has a low carbon footprint. The team has also demonstrated that the process can be scaled up for commercial application.

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Argonne study compares life cycle emissions of battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from brines and ores

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JULY 14, 2021

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have conducted life cycle analyses (LCAs) for battery-grade lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) and lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LiOH•H 2 O) produced from Chilean brines (Salar de Atacama) and Australian spodumene ores. This information will help us achieve our goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.

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Fujitsu & Teijin in joint trials with V Frames & Advanced Bikes with recycled carbon fiber; blockchain platform

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Energy consumption during long-distance transportation of resources including materials and used frames across the supply chain represents one major reason why resources are often not recycled and disposed of in a sustainable manner. Earlier post.)

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Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Will Not Dominate The Transportation Sector

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MARCH 24, 2025

The belief that hydrogen will dominate the transportation sector is rooted in optimism rather than evidence. continued] The post Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Will Not Dominate The Transportation Sector appeared first on CleanTechnica. It appeals to the imagination but collapses under scrutiny. The appeal of hydrogen may.

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ATI FlyZero project finds green liquid hydrogen most viable zero-carbon emission fuel for aircraft

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MARCH 28, 2022

FlyZero is the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) project aiming to realize zero-carbon emission commercial aviation by 2030. Funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the project FlyZero began in early 2021 as an intensive research project investigating zero-carbon emission commercial flight.

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Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systems

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MARCH 27, 2021

Bubble growth and departure are ubiquitous phenomena in gas-evolving reactions, which govern the overall energy and mass transport. A slight decrease in hydrophilicity induced a drastic transition of bubble dynamics and a significant increase of the transport overpotential.

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ARPA-E to award up to $45M to support developing marine CO2 removal industry; SEA CO2

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $45 million in funding to support a new program aimed at facilitating the development of the marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry through scalable Measurement, Reporting and Validation (MRV) technologies.

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Cummins and Chevron advance strategic collaboration; focus on lower carbon-intensity fuels

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Cummins and Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation announced a memorandum of understanding to leverage complementary positioning in hydrogen, natural gas, and other lower carbon fuel value chains.

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Amazon invests in electrofuels company Infinium

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The proceeds will be used to advance the development of commercial scale applications to decarbonize the transportation sector. Infinium Electrofuels have the potential to help investor Amazon and other companies to decarbonize their operations and meet their net-zero carbon goals. —Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

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DECEMBER 21, 2024

continued] The post Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure Hyzon Edition appeared first on CleanTechnica. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining EnergyTech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own.

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First China-developed hydrogen fuel cell locomotive starts trial runs

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The first China-developed hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive—from core power to main components—has started trial runs on a 627 km railway line for coal transport in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Source: Xinhua. and the Hydrogen Energy Co.,

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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MAY 1, 2023

According to the EIA , “the plants that are the source of biomass for energy capture almost the same amount of CO 2 through photosynthesis while growing as is released when biomass is burned, which can make biomass a carbon-neutral energy source.” Therefore, biomass as energy source was assumed to produce no additional carbon emission.

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Shell introduces new lifecycle approach to cut carbon footprint of aviation lubricants

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JULY 16, 2023

Shell Aviation has introduced a new lifecycle sustainability approach for its AeroShell aviation lubricants to avoid, reduce and then compensate for lifecycle carbon emissions, improving aircraft performance while helping customers meet their net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) or carbon emissions ambitions. million miles since 2021.

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New Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy

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MARCH 22, 2020

The Road Map stresses the versatility of hydrogen as an enabler of the renewable energy system; an energy vector that can be transported and stored; and a fuel for the transportation sector, heating of buildings and providing heat and feedstock to industry. For US transport, hydrogen is a strong low-carbon alternative.

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Oak Ridge, Argonne collaborate with Wabtec on hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonize rail industry

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The research focuses on zero-carbon hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels as viable alternatives to diesel for the rail industry. The team’s goal is to reduce carbon emissions from the roughly 25,000 locomotives already in use in North America. billion pounds of carbon dioxide.

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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MAY 8, 2023

Qiang Xu of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have developed a promising method for carbon capture and storage using a single-crystalline guanidinium sulfate-based clathrate salt. Methane hydrate is studied for its ability to capture and trap gas molecules such as carbon dioxide under high pressure. Xiang et al.

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UCS: ride-hailing trips can produce nearly 70% greater emissions compared to private car trips

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that the rising use of ride-hailing services is increasing carbon emissions, with ride-hailing trips producing nearly 70% greater emissions compared to the trips they are replacing. —Jeremy Martin, senior scientist and director of fuel policy at UCS.

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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

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APRIL 18, 2023

People from Chevron and Toyota will be driving Toyota’s Tundra, RAV4 and Camry on this road trip with the objective of demonstrating the fuel, which is more than 40% less carbon intensive than traditional gasoline on a lifecycle basis, according to Chevron.

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Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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Modular SMR hydrogen producer BayoTech receives $157M investment

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JANUARY 6, 2021

BayoTech is committed to addressing the global need for consistent, cost-effective, low-carbon supply of hydrogen. This saves customers money and reduces the carbon intensity associated with the legacy challenges of liquifying and transporting hydrogen. Source: BayoTech.

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Roskill expects only 3.2% reduction in shipping emissions of spodumene concentrate by 2030; order of magnitude below IMO ambition

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Shipping emissions form a significant part of the commodity supply chain’s carbon footprint, particularly for those commodities reliant on the mass transport of low-grade ores and concentrates. Roskill has analyzed the trend in carbon intensity of shipping using spodumene concentrate as an example. Regulatory background.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The facility will filter 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air and mineralize it underground. With direct air capture technology, carbon dioxide is extracted from the ambient air and air free of CO 2 is returned to the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is thus permanently removed from the atmosphere.

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Emerson and BayoTech partner to scale production and distribution of low-cost, modular SMRs for hydrogen production

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

BayoTech’s patented technology requires less feedstock, which means fewer carbon emissions and less cost to produce hydrogen than traditional reformers, the company says. Accounting for the carbon intensity for the entire value chain delivers a very different picture, according to Bayotech.

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Vulcan secures site for its planned commercial lithium hydroxide plant

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources signed an agreement with chemical park management company Infraserv to secure a site for its planned Central Lithium Plant (CLP) of its Zero Carbon Lithium Project, at the Ho?chst chst Chemical Park (Industriepark Ho?chst), chst), located just outside of Frankfurt.

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Study finds transporting food and ingredients generates 20% of carbon emissions in the global food system

NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

New Fraunhofer membrane technology enables co-transport of hydrogen and natural gas

Kawasaki, Subaru, Toyota, Mazda, and Yamaha partner on producing, transporting, and using carbon-neutral fuels, including hydrogen

Kia EV6 achieves product carbon footprint certification from the Carbon Trust

Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

Barbados receiving 35 BYD electric buses; first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean

sennder and Cabot Corporation complete one of Europe’s first cross-border transportations using a heavy-duty electric truck

IEA: global carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded strongly

Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

Tevva and Vattenfall collaborate to develop zero-emission transport solution; electric with hydrogen range extender

Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

California Energy Commission approves $2.9B investment for zero-emission transportation infrastructure

Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

ARPA-E awarding $9M to six projects modeling optimal deployment for low-carbon intermodal freight transportation system

Aviation H2 selects liquid ammonia as carbon-free fuel of choice

DNV forecasts oil demand in transport sector to halve by 2050

Toyota Motor Europe starts transporting vehicles by cross-channel rail freight to reduce emissions

Hapag-Lloyd will use advanced biofuels for the transport of DHL shipments

KAUST researchers show blending ammonia with DME yields low-carbon fuel with combustion properties similar to gasoline

New proton ceramic reactor stack for highly efficient hydrogen production and carbon capture in a single step

Argonne study compares life cycle emissions of battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from brines and ores

Fujitsu & Teijin in joint trials with V Frames & Advanced Bikes with recycled carbon fiber; blockchain platform

Debunking The Myth: Hydrogen Will Not Dominate The Transportation Sector

ATI FlyZero project finds green liquid hydrogen most viable zero-carbon emission fuel for aircraft

Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systems

ARPA-E to award up to $45M to support developing marine CO2 removal industry; SEA CO2

Cummins and Chevron advance strategic collaboration; focus on lower carbon-intensity fuels

Amazon invests in electrofuels company Infinium

Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

First China-developed hydrogen fuel cell locomotive starts trial runs

Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

Shell introduces new lifecycle approach to cut carbon footprint of aviation lubricants

New Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy

Oak Ridge, Argonne collaborate with Wabtec on hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonize rail industry

Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

UCS: ride-hailing trips can produce nearly 70% greater emissions compared to private car trips

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Modular SMR hydrogen producer BayoTech receives $157M investment

Roskill expects only 3.2% reduction in shipping emissions of spodumene concentrate by 2030; order of magnitude below IMO ambition

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Emerson and BayoTech partner to scale production and distribution of low-cost, modular SMRs for hydrogen production

Vulcan secures site for its planned commercial lithium hydroxide plant

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