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“Climate protection is an issue that impacts everyone. While we can work towards this goal internally, we also wanted to provide an opportunity to enroll our customers in our mission toward carbon neutrality,” said Mark McCullough, Gebrüder Weiss USA CEO.
“The customer demand will change so much faster than the industrial processes, and I think that to be early might be challenging, but to be too late will be devastating,” said Anna Borg, president and CEO of Vattenfall.
Despite Ikea’s many climate-related goals, Ship It Zero is calling out the Swedish retailer and other major players such as Amazon and Walmart via “die-ins” to highlight shipping emissions’ impacts on human and environmental health.
URB-E and PenguinPickUp are partnering on a pilot project to conduct deliveries with electric bikes and compact containers.
AskWaves explores the difference between measuring emissions based on what comes out of the tailpipe versus the emissions for the entire life cycle of a shipping fuel.
Increased use of micro-fulfillment centers and more efficient vehicles and routing can reduce carbon emissions by 25% in urban environments, according to Accenture.
Nikola has less need for partners for its hydrogen fueling stations now that it has a sweet price for electricity in Arizona.
Republican lawmakers push back on Biden’s ‘big, bold vision’ ahead of infrastructure talks.
A Shell and Deloitte joint study addresses economic, technical and regulatory factors related to decarbonizing road freight.
“The way we responded to the challenges, kept commerce moving and preserved jobs is a story that we will all remember for a long time to come,” says Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka during his State of the Port address.
Airbus sets sights on zero-emission aircraft powered by hydrogen
As more modes of transportation are experimenting with the use of hydrogen fuel solutions, there are still major challenges that green hydrogen production and adoption faces.
Dana Inc. spotted the trend toward zero-emission commercial vehicles four years ago when China offered incentives for battery-powered buses. That led the Tier 1 supplier to start buying and partnering with companies to build an all-in approach to electrification.
AB InBev is on track to reach its 2025 100% renewable energy goal in 2021. This Ffireside chat from the North American Supply Chain Summit covers the company’s sustainability efforts across the entire supply chain.
In an interview with FreightWaves, SSI Executive Director Andrew Stephens talks about zero-emission shipping fuel and sustainability challenges.
The numbers will be small but the competition fierce as major truck makers debut their first fully electric Class 8 trucks in 2021. Kenworth will be in the zero-emission mix with its T680E built on a Meritor electric drive system.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Massachusetts voters will decide the fate of proprietary vehicle repair data, refrigerated trailers go zero emissions and Xos is one of many suppliers named for the new Hino fuel cell truck.
Startup hybrid truck drivetrain maker Hyliion expects to complete its short trip to public trading on Monday when Tortoise Acquisition shareholders count votes on a reverse merger under which Hyliion would trade on the NYSE and get $560 million to fund its business plan.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, 15 states push adoption of zero-emissions trucks, C.H. Robinson and Microsoft work to digitize the supply chain, and what did Nikola Tesla really know?
