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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000

Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]

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Electrified Freight: Trucking Will Grow & Big Logistics Players Will Dominate

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:23:18 +0000

Key takeaways Delivering inexpensive, reliable electric truck charging requires scale Major logistics, truck stop and turn-key services firms have the scale and will lead the way The big firms that embrace this will increase market share Movement of freight in the United States (U.S) is going to shift more and … [continued]

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Last Mile Delivery Is Standardizing With Two Cubic Meter Roro Boxes For E-Cargo Trikes

May 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, bicycles, carbon emissions, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric bikes, electric micromobility, electric trucks, freight, Logistics, micromobility, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 22:55:30 +0000

In the past year I’ve been observing a trend that’s on at least a couple of continents. Delivery trikes now come without boxes of their own. The boxes are separate and they get packed in distribution centers with the intent of being delivered to a pickup point for an electric … [continued]

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EU Wisely Stiffens Road Freight & Passenger Emissions Guidance

May 16, 2024 admin air quality, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, freight, freight train, freight transport, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, India, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, policy & politics, Shipping, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 22:17:44 +0000

A month ago, I spent some time assembling statistics on major geographies’ split of domestic freight tonnage across different modes: road, rail, and water. I was surprised to find that road freight was so much more dominant in Europe than rail compared to other major geographies. I think of Europe … [continued]

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Hydrogen Fleets Are Much More Expensive To Maintain Than Battery & Even Diesel

January 30, 2024 admin California, carbon emissions, class 8 trucks, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, diesel trucks, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Europe, GERMANY, green economy, green hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping, trains / rail, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 01:10:59 +0000

One of the interesting things I’ve been doing is participating in a review group for a European study on heavy … [continued]

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What About Liquid Hydrogen Or Hydrogen Pipelines For Truck Stops? Yeah, No.

December 10, 2023 admin carbon emissions, class 8 trucks, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Energy, Europe, GERMANY, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:26:22 +0000

More publications on hydrogen refueling of freight trucks means more questions to answer. Freight trucking researcher, Jakob Rogstadius, Swedish senior researcher … [continued]

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Fleet Owners Just Want More EV Charging Stations, Not The Moon

July 20, 2022 admin #adt, Amazon, American Airlines, at&t, best buy, cbre, centrica, ceres, ceres corporate electric vehicle alliance, clean transport, clean trucks, clif bar, consumers energy, dhl, edison international, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, Exelon, fleet management, genentech, heritage, hertz, ikea, jll, lease plan, lime, Lyft, merchants fleet, nafa fleet management association, national grid, otis, policy & politics, schindler, siemens, states logistics, Uber, unifi, usa, verizon

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:30:39 +0000

Fleet owners that represent more than 2.5 million vehicles on the road and claim more than $1.1 trillion in annual revenue figure they should have some say in the matter of building out the national EV charging network here in the US, and they have a lot to say. A collective of 31 leading fleets […]

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EPA’s Truck Rule Misses The Mark — But There’s Still Time To Fix It

April 12, 2022 admin advanced clean truck, clean transport, clean trucks, Electric vehicles, EPA, NOx, nrdc, particulate matter (pm) pollution, policy & politics, policy research, pollution, research

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:00:17 +0000

The new rule is long overdue—the last set of trucks standards were developed over two decades ago. Unfortunately, the agency’s proposal is weaker than existing state action and fails to advance the deployment of zero-emission trucks at the pace needed to address the urgent public health crisis caused by tailpipe exhaust.