Transportation

How the mobility scooter industry is tackling carbon emissions

As part of wider smart city initiatives, the UK is investing in infrastructure that supports electric mobility, including charging stations and dedicated lanes for mobility scooters.  This integration helps reduce emissions by promoting the use of electric vehicles over traditional ones.

7 electric cars for 2025

As the world continues its shift toward more sustainable modes of transportation, the electric vehicle (EV) market is growing, with new models for 2025 setting new standards in performance, technology, and eco-friendliness. Whether you're a seasoned EV enthusiast or a newcomer to the electric car world, 2025 promises to bring exciting options for every driver.

Selling your Tesla for a conventional car? Think of the silent pollutant

By choosing an electric car, you’re not just supporting a brand or a CEO. You’re making a statement about the future you want to create. A future with cleaner air, healthier communities, and less pollution. You’re helping reduce harmful brake dust, which poses a hidden health risk to millions of people. And you’re reducing the demand for fossil fuels, contributing to a broader movement toward renewable energy and environmental sustainability.

The Growing Importance of E-Mobility for Seniors in the City

For seniors, the cost of mobility options can be a barrier. But electric tricycles are an affordable alternative that offers long-term value. They eliminate the recurring costs associated with cars and provide the freedom to explore the city without relying on public transport or family assistance.

BMW partners with mineral miner SK tes to recycle electric batteries

BMW launched a pan-European partnership with SK tes, a company that can mine valuable minerals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium from used batteries before returning them to the value chain to make new batteries.

Warehouse Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Best Practices

Warehouse supply chain management plays a vital role in ensuring that goods flow seamlessly from suppliers to customers, but it is not without its challenges. 

Two-faced Turkey imposes tariffs on solar panels from Asia

Turkey imposes tariffs on solar panels when it hurts its local economy but it speaks from the other side of its mouth when it stiffs Europe by helping China evade high tariffs on electric vehicles sold in Europe.

One quarter Israel’s cars are electric but green taxation isn’t working

Researchers say that the money invested in green taxation in Israel does not achieve its public goals. Instead of reducing pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and encouraging electric vehicles, it has become a strategic pricing tool used by car importers to influence their profits.

How To Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Supply Chain?

Managing your organization's carbon footprint has many environmental benefits. This approach also makes your operation cost-effective. 

Cairo invests $1 billion USD to upgrade its trains

Cairo's heart of commuter transport is getting a billion dollar upgrade.

10 Keys to Fleet Vehicle Sustainability

Increasingly, business owners are concerned about environmental sustainability, and for a variety of reasons, including long-term profitability, compliance, and customer satisfaction. If you have a fleet of vehicles to manage, you'll know how important it is to control fuel economy and environmental sustainability more broadly.

Saudi’s Aramco, London, China and France bet on combustion engine company Horse

As car manufactures switch to electric, London starts a new business: Horse with Renault from France, Geely from China and Saudi Aramco which owns the world's largest stake of oil. It's all in for combustion engines. 

Lilium to sell 100 electric flying taxis to Saudi’s airline

Lilium is on the verge of selling 100 electric flying taxis to Saudi Arabia’s state-owned airline, Saudia, finalizing a framework deal set up in late 2022.

Lithium ion batteries a growing source of pollution in the US

A novel sub-class of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) in lithium ion batteries is a growing source of pollution in air and water.The findings were published in a peer-reviewed study in Nature Communications this week.

Chinese EV company BYD invests $1 billion to open car plant in Turkey

China makes a $1 billion deal with Turkey to build EVs in Turkey circumventing EU tariffs imposed on Chinese electric cars.

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Here is how Europe is still buying Russian gas

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