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* Canada - The Green Mile: Purolator unveils first fully electric trToronto,ONT,CAN -Truckstop Canada News -1 Oct 2007: -- The future of parcel delivery is here. After more than seven years of collaboration and development, Purolator has rolled out Canada's first-ever, fully electric, zero-emissions curbside urban vehicle... The Quicksider prototype, built by Toronto-based Unicell with a groundbreaking electronic drivetrain by ArvinMeritor, is battery-powered electric van that is said to produce 20 percent less emissions than the already-clean hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) currently in Purolator's fleet...
* USA - Clean-air rule targets existing diesel-truck fleet
Big rigs in southern California will need to cut certain emissions, under a regulation approved last weekCity of Commerce,Cal,USA -The Christian Science Monitor, by Daniel B. Wood & Alison Tully -October 1, 2007: -- A new air cleanup rule approved Sept. 27 promises faster replacement or retrofitting of the dirtiest trucks on the road: the diesel-powered big rigs that ply southern California's highways by the tens of thousands on their way to and from the Port of Los Angeles, the nation's busiest... Although California and its network of air-pollution control districts have battled for decades to clean up the skies – and have more measures on the drawing board – this regulation targeting trucking is likely to have the biggest impact and to become a model for other places with serious pollution problems, say environmentalists... The rule, submitted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and approved by local and state officials Thursday, applies to the area that includes Los Angeles, which has the dirtiest skies in America... It was opposed by long-haul truckers, who say the rule requires them to make expensive upgrades whose costs, in the end, will be passed along to consumers of transported goods... In California, about two-thirds of targeted emissions come from mobile sources, and 70 to 80 percent of that comes from diesel... (Photo by Ric Francis/AP/file: Truckers at the Port of Los Angeles wait to offload cargo. Some say a new emissions rule will cripple the industry)
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