Tesla Semi — 10-4, Good Buddy?

Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:47:34 +0000

The first deliveries of the Tesla Semi were made last Thursday evening to a good amount of fanfare at Tesla’s factory in Sparks, Nevada. The Tesla Semi was first unveiled as a prototype in 2017. Five long years later, the first deliveries took place, ending with Tesla handing over the keys to the first production […]

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The Tesla Semi Is Going To Change The World

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:44:43 +0000

At the beginning of October, I published a story on the beginning of Tesla Semi deliveries. The first Tesla Semi for a commercial customer is set to be delivered on December 1, to PepsiCo. There are plenty of financial analyses and specs we could highlight to examine the cost-competitiveness of the Tesla Semi compared to […]

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Electric Trucks Take the Load on the Road in New Zealand

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:31:40 +0000

BEV trucksReliance Transport, with the help of the Low Emission Transport Fund, administered with the help of funding from New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conversation Authority, has commissioned two battery-powered Scania electric trucks to take the road in New Zealand. Reliance Transport is a last-mile cartage specialist based in South Auckland. The first-generation 29 tonne (GCW) […]

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BrightDrop On Track For Fastest Company In History To Reach $1 Billion In Revenue

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:00:49 +0000

BrightDrop shared with investors today that it expected to cross the $1 billion sales mark in 2023, making it one of the fastest businesses to do so. By the end of the decade, the company expects to reach 20% profit margins and up to $10 billion in revenue. The BrightDrop Zevo lineup of electric delivery […]

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Europe, China, & US Could Decarbonise 84% Of Global Shipping Emissions Without IMO

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:15:34 +0000

With the vast majority of ships calling at European, Chinese and US ports, regulation of shipping emissions in these economies would be enough to decarbonise shipping globally. 84% of shipping traffic goes through Europe, China and the US, a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study shows. If these economies were to regulate ships calling at […]

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Maritime Sector & Green Hydrogen Leaders Agree On Ambitious Targets & Collaboration to Reach Zero-Emissions Global Shipping By 2050

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:00:33 +0000

Image credit: Maersk TankersTen organizations signed the Joint Statement on Green Hydrogen and Green Shipping, committing to rapid adoption of green hydrogen-based fuels this decade to get on track for full decarbonization of the shipping sector by 2050, and calling on policymakers to help achieve the ambitious targets. Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – November 14, 2022 Leading organizations and […]

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New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000

Hydrogen demand projection through 2100The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.

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Volvo Group To Produce Battery Modules In Ghent By 2025

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:46:21 +0000

Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium, has announced that in 2025 it will start to produce battery modules. So far, the group has been dependent on partners to supply both cells and modules to the group. The investment decision to install battery module manufacturing capacity in Ghent is another important step for Volvo Group […]

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