Intuitively, people concerned about the environment have reasoned that riding a bike or taking public transit offer more ecological benefits than driving a car, especially when they’re traveling alone. Now the University of California and the New York-based international nonprofit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy have provided some heady … [continued]
This fall, some of California’s children will ride to school in electric style. The California Highway Patrol has approved the use of the an entirely electric school bus. This all-electric Blue Bird school bus was developed through a partnership between the Gilroy Unified School District and Adomani, and the result is a … [continued]
Recently on CleanTechnica there have been a couple of excellent pieces on the challenges with hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles in general, but how would they be for urban transit buses specifically? It’s instructive to look at an apples-to-apples comparisons of diesel, electric trolley and hydrogen buses traveling 100 kilometres in the USA. Diesel is, on … [continued]
Amtrak’s 13-year-old Acela trains have made a huge difference to commuting and other travel along the busy Northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, DC. Now a 6.5-hour trip, it used to take a full business day, or longer. The high-speed, tilting, inter-city train, currently the country’s fastest, can achieve up to … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. A couple of sparkly infographics tout Google’s improvements to its public transit maps today. Over the years, the information giant has been pretty thoughtful in publishing transit information for those who don’t or can’t travel by car. Apparently, that’s 70% of the world’s population, although just … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. BYD’s electric buses can run for an impressive 30 or so hours straight in between charges, based on the results of a pilot test performed in New York City last year during the months of August–October. Charging to full capacity took, roughly, 3–4 hours, and … [continued]
The website that brought renters, homebuyers, and realtors a powerful index of walkability has done it again, this time for public transit (source: walkscore.com). At the end of January, Matt Lerner, CTO of Walk Score, announced a new ranking of the average resident’s access to public transit in a city. … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. According to Wikipedia, a ‘vehicle’ is a: mobile machine that transports passengers or cargo. Most often vehicles are manufactured, such as bicycles, cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, trains, ships, boats and aircraft. But somehow, a ‘green vehicle’ is a: road motor vehicle that produces less … [continued]
The first all-electric, zero emissions bus in the whole of the Caribbean was recently unveiled at at a ceremony in Aruba by the country’s Minister of Transportation, Otmar Oduber, and ARUBUS Director Teo Croes. The 40-foot-long bus, manufactured by BYD Company Limited, represents the first step in the realization of … [continued]
Being on a whirlwind work trip around Ukraine for about one week, I got way behind on my normal news routine and cleantech buffets. Apologies. To catch up, I’m posting 3 (yes, 3!) cleantech buffets this morning. Here’s the second one, on clean transport (electric car, bike, and transit) news … [continued]
