DIESEL EXHAUST, SCHOOL BUSES AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH Background and epidemiology: Most North American school buses and transport trucks are powered by diesel fuelled engines. Diesel has become the fuel of choice because it is considered more economical. However, as evidence grows about the connection between diesel exhaust, air pollution and ill health, so does public […]
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School Buses May Foul Air for Many Years
October 11, 2005 – New York City’s fleet of 6,200 yellow school buses is the largest in the country by far. And despite recent efforts to clean up the most polluting buses in the fleet, it may still be one of the dirtiest.
In a city with asthma rates so high that in some neighborhoods — Harlem, for example — one in four children has the disease, officials have found that efforts to reduce harmful emissions from school buses are hindered by the age of the fleet and by the fact that the buses are owned not by the city, but by outside companies.
Continue readingVolvo Group and Daimler Truck AG are Planning to Form a Joint Venture
VOLVO GROUP AND DAIMLER TRUCK AG ARE PLANNING TO FORM A JOINT VENTURE April 21, 2020 – Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group, have signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish […]
Continue readingDaimler Dumps Gas-Powered Truck Bid to Build CO2-Neutral Fleet
DAIMLER DUMPS GAS-POWERED TRUCK BID TO BUILD CO2-NEUTRAL FLEET October 25, 2019 – Daimler AG is quitting development of natural-gas powered trucks to pool resources for electric and hydrogen rigs that can advance its goal of offering a CO2-neutral fleet in its main markets by 2039. The world’s biggest truckmaker is already working on battery-electric […]
Continue readingHarris Introduces Legislation to Accelerate Electrification of School Bus
KAMALA HARRIS AND COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO ACCELERATE ELECTRIFICATION OF NATION’S SCHOOL BUS FLEET June 06, 2019 – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Wednesday led Senators Merkley (D-OR), Feinstein (D-CA) Booker (D-NJ), Smith (D-MN), Sanders (I-VT), and Cortez Masto (D-NV) in introducing the Clean School Bus Act, legislation to assist […]
Continue readingAMPLY POWER & LOGAN BUS ANNOUNCES ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUS PILOT PROJECT IN NYC
Mountain View, Calif., February 5, 2020 – Pioneering methods to accelerate electric fleet adoption, AMPLY Power will demonstrate and document its Charging-as-a-Service approach for an all-electric school bus fleet in New York City. Logan Bus Company is providing a fleet of five electric school buses for the demonstration, Black and Veatch will be bringing their […]
Continue readingIdling Truck Whistleblower: I Didn’t Do It For The Money
July 7, 2018 – One of the four New Yorkers who filed complaints with the city about idling commercial trucks — which can earn tipsters rewards of up to $500 — apparently didn’t do it for the money. “I haven’t received any compensation and I don’t expect to,” said Tevin Grant, 41, who has filed […]
Continue readingDaimler’s Roger Nielsen Says: End of Diesel Engines Is In Sight
The beginning of the end is here for the internal-combustion truck engine, said Roger Nielsen, CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, the largest truck manufacturer on the continent. And the replacement for diesel-run trucks will be electric vehicles, Nielsen declared. Not trucks run by natural gas or hydrogen fuel cells or a hybrid of diesel […]
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