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Road freight goes green with £20 million funding boost Government encourages fleet operators to convert to battery-electric vehicles in the transition to zero emission road freight. From: £20 million funding boost to accelerate the rollout of zero-emission road freight successful projects include the trial and demonstration of 20 battery-electric DAF trucks by Leyland Trucks, an electric road system feasibility study in Yorkshire and a green hydrogen truck feasibility study focused on Scotland announcement follows the government’s transport decarbonisation plan, in which a consultatio...

According to humanitarian workers wech spoken to. the main highway is cut off. they have four helicopters. one un and government helicopters accessing the scene. giving life saving food and sanitation help. the cyclone didn't just his mozambique. it crashed through. and into key areas. also have been cut off. and military engineers have been working to set up road systems to allow aid to get in. the severity is hard to judge. look at those images the drone shots. you can see a massive part of the city was frankly wiped out. but the coming days will be -- there is rain forecast around the surro...

And i want to ask you about hurricane florence, your state hit very hard, of course, how are your constituents doing today? >> they're fine, we didn't suffer the flooding that they did in the eastern part of the north carolina and south carolina the wind did some damage -- >> what about the toxic -- >> it's something we have to deal with. we avoided the majority of the storm but i feel for eastern north carolina for what they are going through, with the infrastructure that they will have to be paying for and it will affect us with the road systems and the water and sewer that we will be having...

>> right. why, then, should cars be reregistered? >> you mean going from one person to another and paying for the license, paying a licensing fee that goes to the highway systems themselves? it's a matter of picking up the dollars. it isn't a matter of suspicioning. we aren't licensing them because they are a weapon, we're licensing them because that's the way you pay for your road systems. people license those victims because that's what goes into maintaining our road systems. it's a user fee. it's entirely different than suggesting you want to keep a national registry of individuals who have...

Raise the taxes. municipalities, to access the bonds market for murch of the infrastructure, and really can't borrow more. that's why the federal government especially for infrastructure, it's so critically important. and all they're trying to do is shift all of those costs back over to local governments who can't afford them. >> so, andre, how do you pay for this? i mean, some of the available pay-fors were used in the tax reform bill. and now when it comes to infrastructure, initially, it was a trillion dollar plan. now $200 billion we're hearing of federal investments trying to get entities...