Industrial and commercial electric vehicles will be a similar market to cars but innovating faster and frequently more profitable for all in the value chain. The most important sector is buses, the subject of this report, where innovation often comes before cars because they are less price sensitive.
UPS® today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) for its delivery vehicle fleet from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The deal signifies UPS's plan to significantly expand its use of renewable natural gas for its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The company has a goal of driving one billion miles using its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet by the end of 2017.
Named EVA, the electric taxi is built by TUM CREATE, a collaboration between Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and one of Europe’s top universities, Germany’s Technische Universität München (TUM). The project is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore.
The observation of Earth Day began 45 years ago and as of 2012, the Earth Day Network registered more than one billion actions in the advance of sustainability. This momentum continues to build toward the next billion actions as people around the world take strides to protect the environment and ensure that future generations grow up in healthy, vital communities. At BAE Systems, we too strive to protect the environment and are playing our part to move toward the next billion actions in advance of sustainability.
Plug-in hybrids have low fuel consumption, but require more costly parts than cars with a regular combustion engine. During development, the optimal cost balance must be calculated, which has been extremely time consuming to date. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new method that dramatically reduces the time needed for these calculations.
Toshiba Corporation today announced that Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Rinko Bus”) will start operating Toshiba’s first commercial electric bus on its Kawasaki Municipal Hospital route.
Students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have done Singapore proud by coming in first in two categories at this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Asia, a competition for fuel efficiency and innovation.
ABB, the leading power and automation technology company, is proud to accompany Solar Impulse and its crew on the plane’s flight around the world powered only by energy from the sun.
Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the 2014 European Visionary Innovation Leadership Award towards a Future of Sustainable Mobility to Audi AG for the Audi e-gas project. With the e-gas project, Audi has pointed eco-conscious automotive original equipment manufacturers' (OEMs') investment and innovation efforts towards other industries such as the energy sector, so they can share knowledge, gain expertise, and develop solutions for sustainable mobility.
Driving vehicles that use electricity from renewable energy instead of gasoline could reduce the resulting deaths due to air pollution by 70 percent. This finding comes from a new life cycle analysis of conventional and alternative vehicles and their air pollution-related public health impacts, published Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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