Roadside Filters Could Scrub 99% Of Air Pollution

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:10:59 +0000

Reducing the output of harmful emissions is a necessary thing, but what can we do about the pollution that’s already out there? That’s the question being asked by UK-based firm Pollution Solutions, and its answer is a new “cat’s eye-style” in-ground filter that the company claims will be able to substantially reduce air pollution at busy intersections

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eVTOL Aircraft Developers Will Meet At The World’s Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:53 +0000

NBAA-BACE 2019 UAM Airbus Vahana eVTOL Display. Photo: Nicolas ZartJanuary is always a tough month for us, with CES kicking off less than a week after New Year’s Eve, and now the Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference is two weeks later

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Funding Secured: Lightning Systems Raises $41 Million To Ramp Up Production

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:10:28 +0000

Loveland, Colorado-based commercial EV builder Lightning Systems just closed a $41 million round of financing comprised of equity, debt, and working capital line funding from a variety of investors. Lightning Systems plans to use the new funding to scale up production of its electric powertrains for Ford Transits, Ford E-450s, Ford F-59 step vans, Chevrolet Low Cab Forward 6500XD trucks, and Lightning Electric city buses

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The Future Is Now In Indonesia As BYD Lands Order For 200 Electric Taxis For Jakarta & Bali

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:13:20 +0000

BYD is electrifying Bali and Jakarta with a new order for a fleet of 200 of BYD’s fully electric T3 vans from the operator of the largest taxi network in Indonesia, PT Blue Bird Tbk. The new order is the largest order for fully electric taxis in history in Indonesia and also sets a new record for BYD for its electric vans outside of China

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Bill McKibben On Global Climate Talks: “It’s Time For Everybody With Leadership To Start Behaving With A Lot More Responsibility”

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:00:03 +0000

As the COP25 talks were beginning in Madrid, a Bill McKibben interview highlighted the pressing need of legislators around the world to step up to the challenge.

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Keolis Nederland BV Selects BYD To Supply Largest Electric Bus Order In Europe

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 03:40:45 +0000

The Netherlands is getting another massive wave of electric buses, thanks to a massive order from Keolis Nederland BV for 259 new buses from BYD. The order, which was inked on December 6th at Keolis’ head office in Deventer, is the largest single order for electric buses in Europe and reveals just how comfortable transit operators around the world are with the prospect of electric vehicles in their fleets

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The Journal of Epidemiology: Linking Air Pollution Nanoparticles & Incident of Brain Tumors

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:30:07 +0000

Mahattan traffic Nov. 2019 Cynthia Shahan CleanTechnicaScience and modern biochemistry have all kinds of answers on the brain and human health, but scientific knowledge alone can’t stop air pollution. Those studies can make citizens aware of how compromised we are. They can let us know that air pollution is indeed a threat to the brain’s and body’s core functions. But humans must act on this knowledge to make it truly useful

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Uber Air & NASA Launch Airspace Simulation To Enable eVTOL Future

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:02:27 +0000

Computer network connection modern city future technology, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-and-uber-test-system-for-future-urban-air-transportNASA & Uber Air share, by all appearances in this simulation, a tidy answer to a widespread urban issue: electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft

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Los Angeles’ Zero Emissions Roadmap To 2028

Credit to Author: Susanna Schick| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:49:19 +0000

Los Angeles. 2028. The Summer Olympics return for their third trip. The Olympic Committee has fulfilled their promise to only use recycled materials. An easy promise in a city with so much existing Olympic Infrastructure. But will the Olympians be able to breathe? Will Los Angeles, America’s manufacturing hub, be forced to shut down factories (and the ports!) for weeks preceding the Olympics in order to ensure adequately clean air? Or will this not be enough? Will all Olympic events be held indoors? Will Olympians compete wearing filtration masks and oxygen tanks

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Fear of Progress

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:33:00 +0000

A recent article on CleanTechnica, “BBC Click: Are Electric Vehicles ‘The Future Of Road Vehicles?’ EV Owners: ‘Duh.'” basically covered what CleanTechnica and other green energy websites have been saying for years, that EVs are superior to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in more ways than one. This is not news to informed progressives, but it is very much news to the general public

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