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End of energy and transportation as we know it’: Tony Seba
Within just 15 years conventional energy production and transport…obsolete by revolution in batteries, solar power and electric cars… “no excuse” for any utility in Australia not to know what’s coming, he says, outlining world with little centralised power generation, 100 … Continue reading
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Game changer bus
Popple explained that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are a “technology looking for a problem.” I’ve been making that case for over a decade, but the exponentially-growing success of electric vehicles now simply leaves no significant room (or rationale) in the marketplace for … Continue reading
Emissions Reduction – problem with transport
This week, a new report released by the federal government – a discussion paper on vehicle emissions, issued as part of a Ministerial Forum into reducing the environmental and health impacts of transport pollution – adds to the gloom…It illustrates, via … Continue reading
Now here’s a wish – cyclists change traffic lights to green
In Aarhus, the city government wanted to encourage biking, and they found that, second only to poor bike lanes, cyclists weren’t biking because they didn’t want to be stopping all the time. Planners wanted to find a way to give cyclists the … Continue reading
Transportation emissions could be cut in half by 2050
Surely what we desperately need is drastic action on transport, perhaps the most effective measure, for us to recognise need for behavioural change? How sick is Minister Greg Hunt giving taxpayers money, to one selected leasing company, to reduce cost … Continue reading
PepsiCo and FedEx among leading brands calling for truck efficiency
“While medium and heavy-duty trucks only make up 7 percent of all vehicles on the road, they consume 25 percent of the fuel used by all U.S. vehicles…Fuel costs are passed on to consumers, which can, in turn, affect a … Continue reading
Reducing car emissions in Europe
The world’s biggest car makers have already agreed to comply with an average new-car standard of 95g/km CO2 by 2021. Policy makers in Europe have now begun drawing up further targets for 2025, Automotive News Europe reports, with an aim for emissions to … Continue reading
Drive slowly and prosper
For many of us, having been sucked into the fairy tale of cars being freedom machines, cool expressions of individuality, blah, blah…when you hear about prospects of township sped limits being reduced to permanent 40km/h, you react with anger. Here’s … Continue reading
Electric vehicles 15% market share in Norway
Norway has the most EVs per capita of any country, although its love for zero-emission vehicles didn’t develop overnight. “They took away all taxes on electric cars…other incentives…park for free, charge for free…bus lanes and toll roads for free…slowly in the … Continue reading
Poor world ranking for cycling
While our media encourages so much excitement about our high performers in big competition cycling events, the rest of us are hardly encouraged at all to get on our bikes. Melbourne is somehow a high ranking city for “liveability” but surely … Continue reading
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