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Del Birmingham

Honda to only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2025 - 1 views

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    Japanese car manufacturer Honda has launched ambitious plans to only sell vehicles using electric powertrains in Europe within six years, which will be complemented by new energy management partnerships.
Adriana Trujillo

Uber Drivers in 'The Smoke' Must Use Electric or Hybrids by 2020; Customers Will Pay - ... - 0 views

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    Transportation company Uber announced its Clean Air Plan, which aims to transition its UK-based "uberX" drivers to 100% hybrid or fully electric vehicles by the end of 2022. As part of the plan, Uber has contributed £2 million toward a dedicated fund that allows its UK-based drivers to "access up to £5,000 towards the cost of upgrading their car to a hybrid or fully electric vehicle." The company will also add a fee to every ride taken through the app in London to grow the fund and extend access to more drivers, with plans to add a similar fee in other UK cities over the next year.
Adriana Trujillo

Dubai announces new electric vehicle incentives - The National - 0 views

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    Dubai will spend millions of dirhams on incentives to have 42,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on the emirate's streets by 2030. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and the Road Transport Authority (RTA) on Sunday announced four incentives to help increase the number of plug-in cars, from free public parking and charging to toll-fee exemption and discounts on the plug-in car's registration.
Adriana Trujillo

Electric Vehicle Outlook 2017 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance | Bloomberg Finance LP - 0 views

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    Electric vehicles are projected to represent 54% of new car sales by 2040, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. Electric vehicles are also projected to displace 8 million barrels of transport fuel per day and add 5% to global electricity consumption by 2040.
Adriana Trujillo

This "Climate Beneficial" Wool Hat Comes From Carbon-Positive Sheep - 0 views

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    The wool-which The North Face is using in a new beanie with the tagline, "Warm your dome, not the globe"-is produced in a way that allows the ranchers to sequester large amounts of carbon as they raise sheep. In a year, Bare Ranch's methods will sequester around 4,000 metric tons of CO2, offsetting the emissions from roughly 850 cars.
Del Birmingham

Ford prepares for a water-scarce future | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • The automotive leader has a strong track record of water use reductions in its manufacturing operations and an aggressive goal to reduce water use even further – by 30 percent per vehicle by 2015. But many at Ford and a number of its stakeholders (including the company’s Ceres stakeholder advisory team) see growing water competition and scarcity as a potential economic game-changer – with big implications for the auto industry.
  • But water is critical to a number of manufacturing steps, including vehicle painting, where large volumes of water are traditionally used to rinse cars, ensuring that not a speck of dust ruins that perfect paint job. Water use also can be high in the automotive supply chain, particularly in making raw materials such as steel and aluminum. Ford also has identified that the energy sources used to power its vehicles (gasoline, electric power or biofuels) play an incredibly important role in determining the water footprint of its vehicles, because of the large amounts of water required for fuel production and power generation.
Brett Rohring

GM boosts 2014 Malibu fuel efficiency at low cost | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • For just a $160 price increase, GM is boosting the fuel economy of its 2014 midsize car, the Chevy Malibu, by 12 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

Ford, BMW, 10 Others Agree Supplier Environmental Guidelines · Environmental ... - 0 views

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    BMW, Ford, GM, Honda and 10 other leading automakers have agreed a set of expectations for suppliers, relating to the environment, working conditions, human rights and business ethics.
Brett Rohring

How Hasbro, Lego and Mattel stack up as green toy makers | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • Millions upon millions of games, dolls, trinkets and other baubles are churned out for the entertainment of children around the world.
  • As the titans that make them start considering their complete environmental footprints, they are making big strides in protecting the planet's natural resources, albeit by disparate approaches.
  • by 2020 Hasbro plans to reduce waste to landfill by 50 percent, energy consumption by 25 percent, GHG emissions by 20 percent and water consumption by 15 percent.
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  • Between 2008 and 2012, the company says, it reduced non-hazardous waste by 40 percent, energy consumption by 19 percent, GHG emissions by 32 percent and water consumption by 31 percent.
  • Hasbro is also working to reduce its packaging material, eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from packaging, increase recycled content and source paper responsibly.
  • This year the company eliminated PVC from new product packaging and says it's on track to nix it from all packaging by the end of this year.
  • It also exceeded its 2011 goal to derive at least 75 percent of paper and board packaging from recycled material or from sources that practice sustainable forest management. By 2015, Hasbro plans to increase that number to 90 percent.
  • it also did away with the plastic bags in which game instructions were wrapped, removing 800,000 pounds of material worldwide from its waste stream.
  • Lego has worked for decades to eliminate PVC as well as phthalates from its toys, all of which no longer contain these substances.
  • Next year the cardboard used in the new boxes will carry FSC certification
  • Over the next few years Lego's parent company, Kirkbi, is investing $547 million to build a wind farm off the coast of Germany.
  • By 2020, the company will contribute to the world at least the same amount of sustainable energy as the company consumes.
  • "Today we recycle about 90 percent of our waste, and with zero waste as our long-term ambition we will continue to make progress on this agenda,
  • in 2010, Mattel's Hot Wheels factory in Malaysia began using local sources and 100 percent compostable residual sugar cane fiber as an alternative packaging material for the plastic insert tray of the Hot Wheels 9- and 10-pack car assortments.
  • Mattel established a sustainability target to improve our packaging material efficiency by 5 percent by 2015.
  • the company has reduced its energy consumption by 33 percent, CO2 emissions by 38 percent, water consumption by 54 percent, volatile organic compound emissions by nearly 70 percent, non-hazardous waste generation by 30 percent and hazardous waste generation by 16 percent.
  • Mattel canceled its contracts with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), who were complicit in rainforest destruction, and instructed its suppliers to avoid wood fiber from controversial sources, including companies 'that are known to be involved in deforestation
Adriana Trujillo

Contract Wins: Mercedes-Benz, Plug Power, Fiat, AeroVironment · Environmental... - 0 views

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    Mercedes-Benz to use Plug Power fro 123 hydrogen-based GenDrive fuel cell units to power forklifts. Fiat selected AeroViroment to provide its home charging stations and installations for the Fiat 500e. Its the 5th auto manufacture to choose Aero for its services.
Adriana Trujillo

6 things one utility now knows about electric vehicles | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

  • SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEV), which represent about 10 percent of national EV sales. Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful.
  • The Southern California region and SCE’s service territory in particular is seeing significant uptick of early plug-in vehicle adoption,”
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    Currently, SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEV), which represent about 10 percent of national EV sales. Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful.
Adriana Trujillo

Ecofys and The Generation Foundation announce strategic partnership on carbon pricing -... - 0 views

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    Consulting firm Ecofys entered a 3-year partnership with advocacy initiative The Generation Foundation to address the challenges of carbon pricing and identify the role of carbon pricing in achieving the 1.5 degrees Celsius target.
Del Birmingham

Environment & Energy Report : News - 0 views

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    More than 4,800 fuel-cell electric vehicles were registered in California as of May, and 36 retail stations were open to the public with 28 more funded, according to a California Air Resources Board report released July 31. An estimated 47,000 fuel-cell electric vehicles are expected to be on the roads by 2024.
Adriana Trujillo

France To Ban All Gas And Diesel Cars By 2040 | HuffPost - 0 views

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    France yesterday unveiled plans to reduce its carbon footprint by ceasing sales of gas and diesel vehicles by 2040 and then becoming carbon neutral by 2050, Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said. France also plans to end coal-fired energy production by 2022, cut nuclear power use from 75% to 50% in eight years and halt imports of unsustainably grown palm oil and soy beans.
Adriana Trujillo

10 of the biggest world automakers partner to launch 'DRIVE Sustainability' | CSR Europe - 0 views

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    A group of ten automakers - including BMW Group, Daimler AG, and Honda - have partnered to launch DRIVE Sustainability, which aims to "drive sustainability throughout the automotive supply chain by promoting a common approach within the industry and by integrating sustainability in the overall procurement process." CSR Europe is facilitating the partnership.
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