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33 Bonus Cleantech & Science Information Tales
September 2nd, 2020 by Zachary Shahan
There’s a lot information printed each month on electrical automobiles, renewable vitality, and different clear and inexperienced issues. We will’t cowl all of it. Under are 33 cleantech tales from the previous month or in order that received onto our story record however by no means received coated. Get pleasure from!
Electrical Vehicles & Vehicles
Mercedes-Benz eActros Electrifies Rotterdam and The Hague with Logistics Service Provider Simon Loos
“The primary ten clients have every examined the Mercedes-Benz eActros intensively for a couple of 12 months – extra clients are actually successively beginning additional exams. Following trials in Germany and Switzerland, the eActros is now additionally getting used for the primary time by clients within the Netherlands and Belgium. Simon Loos is utilizing a 25-ton eActros to produce supermarkets within the area of Rotterdam and The Hague for market chief within the Netherlands, Albert Heijn.”
Fiat Professional Confirms Pricing And Specification Of Fiat E-Ducato For UK Market
“Orders for the 100% electrical Fiat E-Ducato are actually open, priced from £47,675 excluding VAT (after the Authorities PiVG).”
New Peugeot e-Boxer Next-Gen Van
“After reaching a document stage of gross sales for industrial automobiles in 2019 with practically 274,000 deliveries, the PEUGEOT model is stepping up its offensive in these segments and including a brand new stage to the general electrification of the vary.”
Phoenix Motorcars Deploys Electric Cargo Truck To Service Family Owned Business
“Phoenix Motorcars, a number one producer of medium obligation all-electric buses and vans delivered its first ZEUS 500 Electrical Cargo Truck to C&V Contractors, a household owned contracting enterprise primarily based out of Sacramento, California. Funded via the Sacramento Emergency Clean Air & Transportation Grant Program (SECAT), the zero emission field truck deployment highlights the urge for food amongst fleets in California to decide on cleaner, sustainable transportation choices. C&V Contractors, which focuses on customized residence constructing, remodels and upkeep and repairs has been in enterprise and servicing the Sacramento space since 1989.”
First German E-Road Trial Now Fully Operational
“Since early July, the primary German electrical street check monitor close to Frankfurt with catenary overhead traces is absolutely operational with 5 Scania R 450 hybrid vans outfitted with pantographs. The final of the 5 vans was just lately delivered to the German constructing supplies provider firm Knauf.”
“The 2021 Audi e-tron SUV household receives a formidable host of updates and a brand new, compelling worth level for the 2021 mannequin 12 months. The absolutely electrical Audi fashions supply refined SUV designs, with on a regular basis utility and distinctive street presence. The Audi e-tron and e-tron Sportback are the primary and second absolutely electrical automobiles within the Audi lineup, laddering as much as the model’s dedication to 30 p.c of the U.S. mannequin lineup being absolutely or partially electrified by 2025.”
“As we speak Lonestar Specialty Autos introduced it has partnered with In-Cost Vitality, an vitality options firm primarily based in Los Angeles, California, to offer clients Turnkey Vitality and Charging options for fleet conversion to electrical automobiles.”
Nissan Gives LEAF Drivers a UEFA Champions League Final to Remember
“100 fortunate followers attend socially distanced watch get together at drive-in theater, in Nissan LEAFs.”
COVID-19 Rebuild: Scaling Electric Mobility in India
“A various group of enterprise, civil society, and educational leaders got here collectively to introduce coalition letters that assist advancing electrical mobility in India. The coalition letters encourage the state governments of Gujarat and Telangana to launch, undertake and implement their draft electrical mobility insurance policies, as mentioned throughout a digital roundtable, ‘Charging Forward on Electrical Mobility’. The coalition letters emphasised that electrical mobility is essential to rebuilding a stronger post-COVID-19 financial system in India.”
“Mullen Applied sciences Inc. (‘Mullen Applied sciences’ or the ‘Firm’), a Southern California primarily based licensed electrical automobile producer with worldwide distribution that operates in numerous verticals of companies focusing within the automotive trade; Mullen Automotive, Mullen Vitality, Mullen Auto Gross sales, Mullen Funding Corp., and Carhub, immediately proclaims it has executed an LOI with Axiom Monetary for $135 million in funding to accumulate and construct out an electrical automobile manufacturing plant.”
Different Inexperienced Transport
Toray To Supply Carbon Fiber Composite Materials For Lilium’s All-Electric Air Vehicle
“Toray Industries, Inc., introduced immediately that it has concluded an settlement with Lilium GmbH to produce carbon fiber composite supplies for the Lilium Jet. The Munich-based firm is growing this all-electric, vertical take-off and touchdown plane to ship clear, regional air mobility as early as 2025. Lilium CEO Daniel Wiegand is likely one of the co-founders of that firm, which was established in 2015.”
Toronto Expands & Improves Bike Infrastructure
“The Toronto Metropolis Council permitted a fast growth of motorbike lanes across the metropolis to offer an alternative choice to public transit throughout and after the pandemic.”
USA’s First 100% Electric Greenline 39 is Delivered to Owner in Nation’s Capital
“Greenline Yachts was offered with a Governor’s Quotation for his or her contribution as a frontrunner in high-tech and environmentally pleasant boating by the State of Maryland. The quotation marked the supply of the primary 100% electrical Greenline Yacht to be delivered to the USA.”
“The Spirit 111 is the Largest Single-Mast Picket Yacht constructed within the UK since Shamrock V within the Nineteen Thirties and is likely one of the world’s largest crusing yachts with electrical auxiliary propulsion.”
Reduced Speed Limits Save Lives in Busy Cities, Don’t Slow Drivers Down Much
“Visitors accidents are the main reason behind non-natural deaths worldwide. Decrease pace limits could assist forestall accidents. However speed-reduction insurance policies might be controversial and results should not nicely documented.”
Mobility Systems Center Awards Four Projects for Low-Carbon Transportation Research
“Matters embody Covid-19 and concrete mobility, methods for electrical automobile charging networks, and infrastructure and economics for hydrogen-fueled transportation.”
Renewable Vitality
Volvo Cars Chengdu Car Plant Powered By 100% Renewable Electricity
“The Volvo Vehicles manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the corporate’s largest in China, is now powered by 100 per cent renewable electrical energy, taking the corporate’s world renewable electrical energy combine in its manufacturing community to 80 per cent.”
“A typical imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the nation’s vitality grid includes owners promoting unused energy generated from rooftop photo voltaic panels to others of their communities, and dealing collectively to assist make sure the reliability, resiliency, and safety of the facility grid everybody makes use of. Sounds nice in idea. However how can the grid handle such complicated vitality transactions at scale?”
Siemens Gamesa’s Flagship 14 MW Turbine to Power 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Power Project in the UK
“Siemens Gamesa Renewable Vitality has conditionally obtained an order for 100 items of its new SG 14-222 DD offshore wind generators for innogy’s 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm within the UK. A complete service and upkeep contract can also be included within the conditional order. The venture can have the capability to generate sufficient electrical energy to energy to greater than 1.2 million British households when accomplished. The ultimate funding choice is anticipated to be made within the first quarter of 2021.”
Different Inexperienced Stuff
“SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall, the companions within the three way partnership HYBRIT (earlier post), are preparing for the development of an indication plant for the manufacturing of fossil-free metal on an industrial scale. Consultations have begun for deciding on placement of the plant in Norrbotten, Sweden.”
SEAT Reduces the Environmental Footprint of its Production by 43% Since 2010
“SEAT is dedicated to caring for the atmosphere and in 2019 continued to work actively on progressively lowering the environmental impression of its exercise. The carmaker efficiently lowered its 5 essential production-related environmental indicators by 43%, together with vitality and water consumption, waste era, unstable natural compounds and CO2. On this approach, the corporate is taking a significant step in direction of reaching the targets set for 2025, with the purpose of lowering its environmental footprint derived from manufacturing by 50% in comparison with 2010.”
Volkswagen Starts Development of Climate Projects for CO2 Compensation
“The Volkswagen Group and the venture developer Permian International have signed a Joint Growth Settlement to create local weather safety initiatives. With the assist of Permian International, the Volkswagen Group will start growing local weather safety initiatives to guard tropical forests within the second half of 2020. Following profitable verification, the prevented deforestation and restoration of endangered forests will lock away carbon and ship carbon credit that will probably be used to compensate for CO2 emissions from the availability chain, manufacturing and logistics of car, so long as these CO2 emissions can’t be prevented and renewable energies can’t be used at present.”
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring … and Bentley is Now Storing
“Bentley Motors has put in a sophisticated rainwater harvesting system at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Crewe, England. This marks the most recent step within the British model’s water utilization discount programme and long-term journey in direction of changing into the world’s most sustainable luxurious automotive producer.”
Porsche Adopts New Guidelines for Environmental Protection
“Ecological duty and financial success go hand in hand at Porsche. Sustainable and accountable motion has at all times been a necessary pillar of the sports activities automotive producer’s company philosophy. Now the Govt Board of Porsche AG has adopted a brand new environmental and vitality coverage, underlining as soon as once more the corporate’s place.”
Start-up “&Charge” Promotes Electric Mobility
“With ‘&Cost’, Porsche Digital has efficiently spun off its personal firm within the area of e-mobility, thereby increasing its digital enterprise portfolio. ‘&Cost’ presents a digital platform via which customers can receive credit score for his or her on-line purchases for electrical mobility. The beginning-up, which relies in Frankfurt am Fundamental in Germany, thus presents the primary loyalty program for e-mobility in Europe.”
Shaping Sustainable Innovations: Audi is a Founding Partner of the GREENTECH FESTIVAL
“Audi is a brand new founding companion of the GREENTECH FESTIVAL. This pageant of inexperienced applied sciences and sustainable life-style has been basically reconceived. Its founders, Nico Rosberg, Marco Voigt and Sven Krüger, will current the discussion board underneath the motto ‘have a good time change’ as a hybrid for the primary time, from 16 to 18 September within the Kraftwerk Berlin. A mix of on-the-spot program parts, digital elements and livestreams will allow company to have a close-up expertise of quite a few contents, a few of them happening concurrently. With the GREEN AWARDS, Audi can also be changing into the patron for one of many 4 core modules of the pageant.”
Not Worth It: The Failing Economics Of Fracked Gas And Petrochemicals
“After we begin to look a bit in another way on the decisions in entrance of us, we see clearly that the very best future doesn’t want to incorporate pipelines or benzene air pollution or methane emissions.”
EU Law Against Greenwashing Approved By European Parliament
“The European Parliament has approved the a lot debated, and lengthy awaited, Taxonomy Regulation that can decide which monetary investments might be labelled environmentally sustainable. Inexperienced transport group Transport & Setting (T&E) mentioned the EU inexperienced ‘taxonomy’ regulation will probably be a cornerstone of sustainable finance that can assist channel investments in direction of a brand new, clear financial system.”
Air Air pollution & Excessive Climate
Half of the World’s Population Exposed to Increasing Air Pollution, Study Shows
“Half of the world’s inhabitants is uncovered to rising air air pollution, new analysis has proven.”
Study Demonstrates Association Between Exposure to Air Pollution and Vascular Damage
“Researchers who analysed information from greater than 3,000 individuals in India discovered
gender-specific variations in sources of publicity and well being outcomes.”
EU Must Act After Study Shows Shipping Pollution Could Increase By Half
“Transport’s local weather impression has grown 10% in simply six years, in keeping with a landmark examine launched immediately by the UN maritime company. Carbon air pollution from ships may enhance by as much as 50% by 2050 if left unchecked, the IMO’s fourth greenhouse fuel examine finds. Inexperienced group Transport & Setting mentioned the EU should now activate its plans to incorporate maritime emissions in its carbon market and introduce CO2 requirements for ships whereas in operation.”
How A Historic Drought Led To Higher Power Costs And Emissions
“Drought can imply restrictions for watering the garden, crop losses for farmers and an elevated threat of wildfires. However it will possibly additionally hit you and your energy firm within the pockets. In communities that depend on water for energy era, a drought can imply increased electrical energy prices and air pollution linked to the lack of hydropower provides.”
“A brand new Local weather Central report examines how warmth and a warming local weather endanger the well being of an getting old U.S. inhabitants, a menace made much more worrisome through the COVID-19 pandemic.”
John Cook PhD: COVID Conspiracy Theories Erode Trust In Science
“John Prepare dinner has finished a whole lot of work on conspiracies and misinformation within the local weather area, and right here takes a have a look at the same mechanisms in play through the pandemic interval.”
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