Climate Solutions: Road Transport
Emissions from the burning of petrol and diesel from all forms of road transport including cars, trucks, lorries, motorcycles and buses – and excluding the emissions related to manufacture them, which are counted elsewhere. 60% of road transport emissions come from passenger travel, and the remaining 40% from road freight. This is purely an energy issue, and the solution is simple, if hard to implement: electrify everything on the road, then produce enough extra green energy to keep it all going.
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A year after Volkswagen unveiled its mobile charging robot concept designed to make the charging of electric vehicles a completely autonomous operation, the company has given us a glimpse of the robot in prototype form.
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Back in 2018, Volvo Trucks launched its first all-electric trucks, which went on sale the following year. Now the company has announced that they will be joined by three more models to form a complete range of heavy-duty electric trucks.
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Amazon is showing off what it calls its first custom electric delivery vehicle, which is built by startup Rivian and has been tailored to suit its delivery operations, with plans to roll them out across the globe in 2022.
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While other truck companies look at fuel cells and electrics, Scania is experimenting with solarized plug-in hybrid trucks. The company believes its solar panel-decorated trailer will be able to deliver fuel savings between 5 and 20 percent.
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Automotive industry disruptor REE has showcased its ridiculously flexible, super-flat EV chassis driving autonomously on the racetrack. This new class of ultra-modular, everything-by-wire vehicle can roll with any logo, cabin, spec and body shape.
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Having put hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered trucks to the test around ports in Los Angeles over the past few years, Toyota has now teamed up with truck subsidiary Hino to develop a Class 8 fuel cell electric truck for the North American market.
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Tesla's Battery Day and annual shareholder meeting involved a foreshadowing of big leaps in battery technology, the promise of affordable electric cars and the unveiling of a mind-bending new performance option, known as Plaid mode.
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The start/stop nature of trash collection makes electric powertrains a good choice for refuse trucks, and Phoenix-based Republic Services has just ordered 2,500 battery-electric waste trucks from Nikola.
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Ridesharing company Lyft has today outlined a vision to transition to 100 percent electric vehicles by the end of the decade, an ambitious plan that involves moving all cars used across its platform to zero-tailpipe-emission technologies.
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With any electric vehicle, you're going to spend some time parked up and plugged in. Being able to roll along the highway with the batteries charging as go would be much better, and a new development out of Stanford could see that happening.
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If aeroplanes can refuel each other mid-air, then why not electric cars? What if EVs could share energy on the move? Could the whole traffic ecosystem become one giant battery dedicated to getting everyone where they're going without stopping?
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Anglo American and Williams Advanced Engineering have joined forces to develop what will become the world's largest hydrogen or electric powered mining truck, aiming to help bring carbon neutral mining within reach.
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