Drivers of used cars have learned that average CO2 emissions fell by the biggest ever margin last year on newly-released models, according to research by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). ... Read more
South Africa is about to introduce a carbon tax on new vehicles. Now this article is certainly not going to pretend that carbon emissions don't need to be curbed, but this new scheme is nothing short of another cash cow for the treasury. ... Read more
More and more fleets in North America and Europe will come to rely on telematics to bolster fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions in the next five years, according to a study from Frost & Sullivan. ... Read more
Networking giant Cisco is helping the city of Amsterdam provide detailed information on carbon emissions to its residents.Authorities in Amsterdam are working with networking giant Cisco to create an online map of the city's carbon emissions which residents can use to try and reduce their carbon footprints. ... Read more
IT should be seen as key to reducing emissions in any successor to the Kyoto Protocol agreed in Copenhagen this December, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). ... Read more
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Better Place today announced that it has received an award from the Japanese government to conduct a pilot project in Tokyo for the world's first electric taxis with switchable batteries. Better Place will partner with Tokyo's largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, in the project commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry's Natural Resources and Energy Agency. The project, which comes on the heels of the company's successful battery switch demonstration earlier this year in Yokohama, is slated to begin in January 2010. ... Read more
Thousands of miles of railway track will be electrified under a government plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from transport. The Midland Main Line and the Great Western Main Line, currently used by diesel trains, are likely to be converted to electricity over the next decade. ... Read more
IBM and Cisco partner on a pilot to help 500 Amsterdam households cut energy bills and reduce CO2 emissions. IBM and Cisco are helping the Dutch utility Nuon and the city of Amsterdam make smarter use of energy by enabling consumers to make more informed decisions about their energy consumption. ... Read more
The awards' Move ', organized by the Foundation of the City Council of Madrid Mobility, reward good practice in sustainable mobility undertaken in the city of Madrid by the social fabric, to reinforce these behaviors and to promote their replication by others. ... Read more
Many firms risk underinvesting in green fleet policies which will not only damage relations with investors and other groups, but also suffer the consequences of a recent fuel duty increase and new CO2-based corporation tax system. Lloyds TSB Autolease, is calling for businesses to embrace the cost cutting benefits of turning their car and van fleets green. ... Read more
The monitoring committee of the proposed use of renewable fuels in city buses Murcia collected this week, has approved raising the biodiesel blend to 20% in view of the good results of the experiment. . Thus the urban bus line number 4 (which connects the boroughs of Infante, Fleet, Santa Maria de Gracia and Gran Via) operating for a year with B10 biodiesel, be more respectful of the environment from this week, going to use B20. ... Read more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education this week announced plans to strengthen the joint research agenda they initiated in 2006 with the launch of the MIT-Portugal Program. The revisited strategy aims at a longer-term collaboration focused on three main areas: sustainable urban/regional systems; stem cell research for regenerative medicine; and materials and design-inspired products. ... Read more
IBM and Omron in Japan on April 2, announced a business collaboration environment to help reduce cardon dioxide emissions. The announcement, in order to strengthen the business, especially in the field of logistics, and logistics solutions to new products that integrate the two companies. ... Read more
The use of metro prevents the emission of one tonne of CO2 per day. Thus, each person using the Suburban instead of a car for years made a similar contribution to plant 30 trees.Madrid Metro carries 42% of travelers in the region and its CO2 emissions are less than 1% of the Community. ... Read more
A delegation headed by the president of the Environmental Protection Agency of the Government of Buenos Aires, Graciela Gerona, this week visited the premises of Metro de Madrid accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of the Community, Luis Armada, with the aim of the environmental measures implemented in the regional public transport to discuss the possible implementation in their country. ... Read more
INEO Systran has been chosen to carry out the support system operations and passenger information (SAEIV) of the bus network and the future tramway of Reims. Traffic management in real time should improve the punctuality of public transport in the city while reducing their energy consumption. ... Read more
The ‘Pioneers 09’ showcase event on March 4th will be the first time that real-time data from the network has gone on public display. ‘Pioneers 09’ is being held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London and organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). ... Read more
CHICAGO, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- ComEd today announced it has received ISO 14001 certification of its Environmental Management System (EMS), an important validation of ComEd's commitment to the environment and its key role in helping Illinois become a national leader in environmental stewardship. ... Read more
Carillion Fleet Management has developed an easy-to-use online carbon calculator that can help companies cut their fleet costs and reduce CO2 emissions. ... Read more
The UK government’s Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) and the Motorists’ Forum (MF) recently issued a joint report evaluating the impact of implementing an Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) system across the entire road network on reducing deaths and injuries on the UK roads and on reducing fuel consumption and emissions of CO2 and criteria pollutants. ... Read more
The Forestry Commission, the UK Government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands, is measuring its carbon emissions using COA Solutions’ Employee Expense Management (EEM) system. ... Read more
400 million needed to implement the strategy that the EU executive will approve tomorrow. O Reduce by 10% the impact on growth (10 billion saved) and cut the exhaust gases up to 15%. ... Read more
The Director of Industry and Technological Development, Javier del Olmo, has presented this morning at a press conference a grant scheme from the Ministry of efficiency and energy savings, with about 4.5 million euros, which can be requested through GENERCAN (Society of Energy Management of Cantabria), Group SODERCAN. ... Read more
LONDON, Dec 08, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In-car green technologies are set to shape the future of the European automotive industry. The key to developments, in this sector, will be advanced engine technologies. ... Read more
The optimism and the hope that car is still - despite everything - able to dream. These are the guidelines of 2008 Bologna Motor Show ... Read more
PAYD road financing should replace the highway gas tax using GPS or license-plate RFID tags. Roads should be priced so that they produce an agree-to rate of return on the VALUE of the lane. ... Read more
MEP Zita Gurmai's report on the European Commission's Intelligent Car Communication "Towards Europe-wide, Safer, Cleaner and Efficient Mobility" has been adopted by the Plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 19 June. ... Read more
Current pricing motor insurance is inefficient and unfair believes The Hamilton Project, a group of American thinking. The objective of the Hamilton Project is to promote, through economic research and publication of pragmatic proposals and not doctrinal, the general increase in living standards. ... Read more
Engineers and designers are racing to make the safest car possible - we take a peek at how it may look
No more crashes? As the British International Motor Show opens next week, it's worth noting that this could be a landmark year for safer driving.
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The European Commission Intelligent Car report “Towards Europe-wide, safer, cleaner and efficient mobility” will be addressed by Strasbourg European Parliament Plenary session in first reading on 19 June. The report has been adopted almost unanimously by the EP Transport and Tourism Committee on 8 April 2008. ... Read more
By using position tracking systems to calculate use-optimised motor vehicle insurance premiums, the Italian company OCTO Telematics has won 500,000 customers in only three years. At the CeBIT in Hanover, the follow-up products, such as personal CO2 meter for drivers and the use of traffic data for navigation systems will be displayed. ... Read more
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