1. Final Countdown to London Low Emission Zone

(Source: FTA) London - The Freight Transport Association says that with only 50 working days remaining before the implementation of the London Low Emission Zone (LEZ), many operators have still not got their fleets ready. On 4 February 2008 all vehicles over 12 tonnes will have to meet the Euro 3 standards for particulate matter (PM10).

Vehicles over 3.5 tonnes come into the scheme on 7 July, along with buses and coaches (over 9 seats). The standard can be met by using vehicles bought since October 2001, when the Euro 3 standard became the norm, or by having the vehicle fitted with a particulate trap.

20/11/2007 | 575 Hits | Print | Email

2. Global Electric Motorcars wins prestigious Blue Sky Award in California

(Source: Chrysler/GEM) Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), a Chrysler company, has been awarded the 2007 Charles R. Imbrecht Blue Sky Merit Award™from California-based WestStart-CALSTART, for its “strong and enduring commitment to advanced transportation technology” including bringing neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) to California in 1998 “when others were not even considering” environmentally-friendly technologies.

As the leading manufacturer of NEVs, there are nearly 14,000 GEM vehicles on the road in California, and that number is increasing at the rate of nearly 100 GEM vehicles per month.

24/08/2007 | 779 Hits | Print | Email

3. Toyota Announces 'Sustainable Plant' Activities

(Source: Toyota) Tokyo - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today that it plans to soon initiate "sustainable plant" activities aimed at increasing the sustainability of its production operations. The activities are to emphasize the role of nature in creating production sites that harmonize with their natural surroundings.

These "sustainable plant" activities are to be first carried out at TMC's Tsutsumi Plant, which makes the Prius hybrid vehicle and which has been positioned as a "model sustainable plant". In addition to a cogeneration system already in place, the plant is to use a 2,000kW photovoltaic generation system, one of the biggest in use among the world’s automobile plants (as surveyed by TMC).

24/07/2007 | 788 Hits | Print | Email