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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy intends to issue three sustainabletransportation technologies funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) in Spring 2021.
The Second UN Global SustainableTransport Conference concluded with a call to accelerate progress towards achieving sustainabletransport that would result in major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and in improving the lives of millions of people. But these new technologies have to work for everyone.
The expanded collaboration aims to explore how to integrate breakthroughs in material science and recycling concepts to support electric mobility and sustainabletransportation. Volkswagen is focused to push electric mobility and new technologies for ever-more sustainabletransportation. transportation sector.
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The hydrogen fuel cell buses have been added to Transit Systems growing green fleet of sustainabletransport solutions, which now includes 60 electric buses and two hydrogen buses. Foton Mobility Australia is the sole distributor of Foton New Energy vehicles in Australia. Earlier post.).
These results show that the Opposed-Piston technology is able to meet our sustainabletransportation goals, reducing criteria pollutants while also emitting less carbon dioxide.
VWGoA) is boosting its automotive research in the United States to further accelerate electric mobility and sustainabletransportation innovation. Hardcore durability tests showed that it exceeds the conventional steel frame in energy absorption, and could serve as a lightweight, yet ultra-robust alternative.
The post A Clean Start: Argonne Spotlights Projects That Give Underserved Communities Equitable Access To SustainableTransportation appeared first on CleanTechnica. Argonne develops case studies on community-based electric mobility projects that integrate equity.
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With the world’s focus shifting towards sustainableenergy, electric cars have emerged as a promising solution for the future of transportation. Conclusion electric cars are the future of sustainabletransportation.
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The Canadian federal and provincial governments will award approximately $475 million (CAD) (US$357 million) in project funding for Air Products’ multi-billion-dollar landmark net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex in Alberta. Earlier post.)
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The Volvo Group has created the new business area Volvo Energy to strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. Volvo Energy will be a business area with full profit and loss responsibility.
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The collaboration targets the rapidly increasing demand for liquefaction systems as industries work to decarbonize and transition to new energy sources. The Micro-Scale Liquefier enables small-scale liquid hydrogen production under 5 tonnes per day, offering a new future for sustainabletransport, industry, and energy self-sufficiency.
Different transport application will require different electric powertrains. We aim to make it easy for customers to select sustainabletransport solutions. Electrification will play a key part in the shift to a fossil free transport system. —Peter Carlsson, Co-Founder and CEO of Northvolt. Earlier post.).
The university’s Parking and Transportation Services and Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility received a best practice award for sustainabletransportation in the 2019 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards competition.
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Achates Power was awarded a $5-million cooperative agreement from the US Department of Energy in 2020 for a new two-cylinder prototype demonstration and concept design of a next-generation medium-duty commercial vehicle opposed-piston engine. —David Crompton, president and CEO, Achates Power. Earlier post.)
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The Scoping Plan divides the transportation sector into three general categories: Technology: the vehicles themselves, as well as the associated refueling infrastructure for those vehicles. Vehicles must transition to zero emission technology to decarbonize the transportation sector.
Alstom and the Province of Groningen, local operator Arriva, the Dutch railway infrastructure manager ProRail and the energy company Engie have signed plans for a pilot project to test the Coradia iLint, a passenger train powered by hydrogen fuel cells ( earlier post ), for the first time in the Netherlands.
The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Also, they typically charge during the day, when a greater quantity of solar energy is powering the grid. Nat Energy (2020). Ride-hailing vehicles travel more miles than personal vehicles, making them more efficient.
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Transitioning fleets to electric vehicles helps advance clean energy technologies and reduce emissions from transportation. Sperling wrote a book— Three Revolutions —describing a three-pronged approach to sustainabletransportation that involves integrating electrification, ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles.
If so, it is a valuable potential option for long haul transit in our quest for sustainabletransportation. Papers from BMW and Hydrogen Energy Research Lab show that sufficiently lean hydrogen combustion in properly designed combustion chamber results in close to zero NO x. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.
The study was conducted by Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA) and commissioned by ClearFlame, whose investors include Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, John Deere, Mercuria, and Clean Energy Ventures. —Patrick Couch,, GNA study author.
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billion Proposition 98 to support school transportation programs, including advancing electric school buses in a coordinated effort between educational, air pollution, and energy agencies; $1.1 billion for zero-emission trucks, buses, and off-road equipment and fueling infrastructure; and $400 million to enable port electrification.
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