Linde becomes seventh member of hydrogen trucking group
Linde – a leader in hydrogen production, processing, storage and distribution – has joined a collaboration to accelerate the deployment of green hydrogen for trucking.
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Logistics UK: Freeze fuel duty forever to help shift to alternatively fuelled vehicles
Business group, Logistics UK, is calling on the government to freeze fuel duty forever to help the sector make the shift to alternatively fuelled vehicles on the road to Net Zero.
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Volta Trucks secures €37m in latest funding round
Electric truck company Volta Trucks has announced the successful conclusion of its Series B funding round with €37 million secured in new capital.
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Commercial vehicle industry calls for decarbonisation plans before bans
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has called on government to work with industry to develop a plan that facilitates the transition to zero emission HGVs, before it commits an end of sale date for conventionally fuelled trucks.
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Midlands bid secures funding for hydrogen powered HGVs
Clean, hydrogen powered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) could become a reality on UK roads now that a regional bid has successfully attracted funding from the Department for Transport’s Zero Emission Road Freight programme.
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Highways England lays out roadmap to net zero by 2050
Highways England has announced its ambitious new carbon plan that will see it rapidly cut carbon from road construction, maintenance and operations, and support the transition to zero emission vehicles.
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GVN warns of unintended consequences in Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Leading industry trade body, the Gas Vehicle Network, (GVN), has responded to Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps’ Transport Decarbonisation Plan.
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Logistics UK launches Route to Net Zero campaign
Logistics UK has announced the launch of Route to Net Zero: a campaign to encourage its 18,000 members to commit to decarbonising their operations as quickly, effectively and as urgently as possible to help the UK achieve carbon neutrality ahead of the legal deadline of 2050.
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Transport Decarbonisation Plan launched
The Government has launched its long awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) which includes ambitious plans to decarbonise all modes of domestic transport by 2050, a pledge to end the sale of new diesel and petrol heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) by 2040 and a commitment to electrify the entire fleet of government cars and vans by 2027.
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CNG to open largest low-carbon HGV refuelling station
CNG Fuels has announced that it will open the world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station for HGVs by the end of the year.
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