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Oct 31, 2014

TECHNO-LOGISTICS & TRUCKS * USA / Germany : Trucks & Drones

* Ohio - Electric trucks plus drones could make deliveries 'green'
(Photo Credit: AMP EV: AMP's drone, dubbed Horsefly, could be used together with electric trucks to deliver goods to future online shoppers)
Cincinnati,OH,USA -Live Science, by Jesse Emspak -October 29, 2014: -- AMP Electric Vehicles, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is proposing a new way to deliver goods that combines drones with fuel-efficient electric trucks... AMP wants to add drones to the delivery service to boost efficiency even further. The drone would be attached to the vehicle, and would be capable of carrying packages weighing up to 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) for two or three miles (3 to 4 km) before returning to the truck... For businesses like FedEx, DHL or UPS, AMP's CEO, Steve Burns said, the drone-truck system can lower the cost of deliveries to 2 cents per mile. Typical costs for UPS, for instance, average about 50 cents per mile... Development of this same-day delivery service depends on forthcoming regulations from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...


* Germany - DHL's 'Parcelcopter' delivery drone

(Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters: DHL deploys 'parcelcopter' drone for drug deliveries... A flock of pigeons flies with a prototype "parcelcopter" of German postal and logistics) 
Norddeich,Norden,Germany -Live Science, by Elizabeth Palermo -September 26, 2014: -- Though the drones will be running on autopilot, DHL has set up a mobile ground station in Norddeich so that manual action can be taken if an aircraft malfunctions, or if an emergency occurs...

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