and no car manufacturing industry of our own, Australia’s electric vehicle future is in no doubt. New figures from the Electric Vehicle Council show that sales of electric vehicles in Australia tripled in 2019,
In addition to the introduction of alternative drive concepts, intensive work is under way on the enhancement of more efficient combustion drives. As a CO2 avoidance concept, diesel engines play an important role here. In Europe, this drive principle has captured very high market shares in the ...
The autonomous Scania XT 8x4 tipper has been in use at Rio Tinto's Dampier Salt operations in Australia since August 2018. Electrification is possible and economical We’ve already driven down the road from theory to practice: In autumn 2021, Fraunhofer ISI, on behalf of Transport & Environ...
"The Tape" Bloomberg's Tynan on VW and the Future of Diesel in Cars(Audio) (Podcast Episode 2016) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...
Where wind, solar, waves, tide or nuclear power is used to charge batteries, electric cars have zero emissions. Either way, air quality improves dramatically in cities as the use of electricvehiclesincreases. Owners can also save a huge amount ofvehicletax on petrol ordieselsince taxation is ...
There was much excitement last year when the UK government announced it will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. But is that easier said than done? The road to global traffic being totally electric is still a long way off. Currently, battery life is an issue – a ful...
traditional internal combustion engine’s days are numbered. This is a problem for a championship like DTM, which relies almost entirely on manufacturers who are interested in using the series to promote their road cars: if they stop offering petrol and diesel cars altogether, why go racin...
“With our wide range of vehicle applications, we haven’t found the one perfect solution yet,” Phillippi said. “However, we have more than 300 electric vehicles in the fleet right now—most of these are retrofitted from diesel vehicles—the experience gained has helped UPS determine what wo...
In electrifying the transport sector, hydrogen-powered FCEVs have a number of important advantages compared to battery-power electric vehicles: (i) they can be rapidly refuelled in a couple of minutes and have long range mobility similar than gasoline or diesel vehicles; (ii) they can work ...
twitter profile (Opens in a new tab)Opens in a new tab About PCL Construction PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and in Australia. These diverse operations in the civil infrastructure, heavy industrial and bu...