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ELECTRIC TRUCKS * USA - EVI electric vehicles eligible for CARB rebates
Stockton,CAL,USA -Fleet Owner -Mar 16, 2010: -- Electric Vehicles International (EVI) has announced that its medium- and heavy-duty fully electric trucks have received California Air Resources Board (CARB) approval, making both models eligible for the board’s $20,000-rebate program... The vehicles, a Freightliner Custom Chassis model EVI-WI and a Daimler Freightliner M2 model EVI-MD produce zero emissions. They are also Dept. of Transportation approved for road use... EVI has partnerships with Light Engineering, Valence Technology, and Daimler... (Photo from green.autoblog)* In search of cleaner and greener freight hauling
Washington,DC,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Mar 15, 2010: -- A new report from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) urges Congress to create a “cleaner and greener” freight transportation system in the U.S. EDF seeks to have pollution reduced from truck engines, rail locomotives, and ship engines alike via new technologies and strategies that it says can be implemented without impinging on the national freight system... In “The Good Haul: Freight Innovations for the 21st Century,” EDF states that the freight sector alone represents approximately 8% of total U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And freight’s share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is increasing faster than other transportation modes. That load has jumped almost 60% since 1990, or more than double that of passenger travel (27%)... As a result, Congress should include comprehensive funding policies in the upcoming transportation reauthorization bill to both modernize freight transportation and clean it up by favoring such innovations, according to EDF...Labels: electric trucks
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