#hybrid vehicles News
Highly toxic rare earth mining has rapidly expanded in northern Myanmar, fueling human rights abuses, deforestation and environmental contamination, an investigation by the NGO Global Witness has found.
Transport
Price and performance are slowing EV adoption in Southeast Asia: Grab sustainability chief
The sustainability head for Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailer says there is still a long way to go before electric vehicles can match petrol-powered cars and bikes on price and performance.
Indian government think-tank NITI Aayog has now proposed a 'battery as a service' model to promote electric vehicles in the country.
Making real change in the direction of sustainability will require cooperation across the length of the rubber supply chain.
#hybrid vehicles Opinion
Carbon & Climate
Greening the hardest sectors
Unless meaningful action is taken to decarbonise traditional hard-to-abate sectors like steel and commercial aviation, we will have little chance of keeping global temperatures at a safe level.
In a bid of optimism for the new year, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) expressed confidence that clean energy would grow in 2021.
Despite rising education levels, women account only for 25 per cent of India's work force. The lack of safe, affordable and efficient transportation options could be one reason why, writes Ola Cabs' Kasturi GVL.
Transport
Four ways our cities can cut transport emissions in a hurry: Avoid, shift, share and improve
Transport-related emissions have increased nearly 60 per cent since 1990. Swinburne University of Technology's Hussein Dia outlines four strategies to cut emissions and fight climate change.
#hybrid vehicles Podcasts
Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.
GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.
#hybrid vehicles Press Releases
VFlowTech and Banpu Innovation & Ventures
Banpu Innovation & Ventures partners with VFlowTech to develop advance hybrid energy storage solution
