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Fuso eCanter electric light-duty truck arrives in Australia Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) announced the eCanter launching in Australia. With the Australian rollout, the all-electric light-duty truck will now be running in a fourth major region, following Japan, Europe, and the US. The Mitsubishi subsidiary, which belongs to Daimler, expects the first batch of deliveries to Australian customers to take place within the next several months. According to the company, the Fuso ...

(GreenAir Online) The UK government has launched a £15 million ($21m) ‘Green Fuels, Green Skies’ competition to support early-stage development of UK sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plants with grant funding. Specifically targeted are projects undergoing a front end engineering design (FEED) stage in their development lifecycle and will prioritise those projects closest to the development of first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial-scale SAF plant. The competition will also be open to projects o...

Quick, look over your shoulder. That flicker of movement on the Australian horizon is the electric vehicle revolution poking its head up with the dawning sun. The latest electric car charging centre at Gympie which opened this week. Credit:Energy Queensland. In Australia, electric vehicle sales quietly tripled in 2019 – although the numbers are still small, according to the Electric Vehicle Council. That year, sales tripled from 2216 to 6718 and a further 3226 electric cars were sold in th...

by Tammy Klein (Transport Energy Strategies) … Additional efficiency improvements in planes and engines are not likely to be enough and will require lower carbon fuels also known as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), as alternative energy vectors, such as hydrogen, will not be sufficiently developed and deployed by 2050 to significantly contribute to air transport decarbonization. There is massive potential for SAF, but there are also challenges. … So, what is it going to take to bring SAF ...

5 February 2021 Angus Taylor’s trouble with numbers is well known. His problems with the City of Sydney and their supposed travel budget has been well documented, and now his problems have surfaced again in the federal government’s new transport policy, the so-called Future Fuels Strategy. Taylor on Friday used the Future Fuels discussion paper to justify his government’s decision not to provide any subsidies or incentives for electric vehicles, citing claimed emissions reduction costs of...

Date Time Electricity networks gear up to manage electric vehicle demands on grid On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $1.6 million in funding to Jemena to undertake a residential electric vehicle (EV) managed charging trial with four other electricity networks in the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania. Jemena will work with Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSP) AusNet, Evoenergy, TasNetworks and United Energy on a 176 EV residenti...

Date Time Free electric vehicle charging network trial in Adelaide The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $983,776 in funding to JOLT Charge Pty Ltd (JOLT) to develop and trial its free electric vehicle (EV) charging network in Adelaide. JOLT will install 21 innovative EV fast charging units that are embedded in roadside advertising panels across Adelaide in car parks, streets and public spaces. The network will be rolled out across several local government areas con...