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New Zealand landscape firm test Volvo CE electric loader

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Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) is showing off the versatility of its L20 Electric Compact Wheel Loader in New Zealand, where it is being road-tested, or perhaps more accurately, off-road tested, at Intelligro, a landscape equipment manufacturer located in Rolleston, near Christchurch.

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IKEA deploys electric delivery truck from SEA Electric

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Australian e-truck builder SEA Electric has delivered an electric delivery truck to fleet service provider All Purpose Transport. Another IKEA fleet partner, Sydney-based ANC, has had three SEA Electric delivery trucks on the road for the past 10 months. IKEA hopes to make its home delivery fleet 100% electric by 2025.

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Mercedes-Benz launches electric bus chassis for Brazilian market

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Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new electric bus chassis developed for the Brazilian market. The eO500U chassis will be launched in 2022 for Brazil and Latin America, and will also be commercialized in Europe and Oceania. The new chassis was developed by Mercedes’s Brazilian engineering team, and has been extensively tested in Germany.

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What Other Countries Can Learn From Australia’s Roaring Rooftop Solar Market

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In terms of overall capacity, Oceania still only accounts for a tiny share of global renewables. For the last five years or so, the rooftop PV market has been boosted by rising electricity costs, a trend that coincided almost perfectly with a sustained reduction in residential PV system prices. But it added 6.2 “The U.S.

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Biogas trade bodies and companies call for an urgent rethink on GHG Protocol guidance for corporate biomethane use reporting

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for heating or electricity); and scope 3 are indirect emissions associated with business activities and the supply chain. (3) 2) The framework for companies to measure and manage their GHG emissions is established within three ‘scopes’: scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from businesses (e.g.

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Hydrogen electrolyser projects see 55 GW surge in 6 months

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PWh of electricity. Europe leads in project development, making up 32% of the capacity share, the report finds, followed closely by Oceania at 21% in different operational or development stages. The global pipeline for hydrogen electrolyser projects has surged by a staggering 55.2

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Global e-waste has risen 21% in five years, says UN

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This makes e-waste the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled mainly by higher consumption rates of electric and electronic equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair. Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9 Oceania came second (16.1 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1