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Green workshop concepts

Paris Apollon, Director of Fleet Services NYC Department of Environmental Protection, said sustainability goes beyond vehicles at Fleet Vision International – THE SHOW on April 27, 2023. It takes in practices, equipment and infrastructure, all as important as the vehicles.…

JET2 Holidays chooses Stertil Koni’s Earthlift for operations at Manchester Airport  

Stertil Koni has recently provided a set of 8.5-tonne Earthlift electro-hydraulic mobile column lifts and a 5.5-tonne 2-Post lift to facilitate the vehicle lifting operations for Jet2 Holidays at their base at Manchester Airport. In conceiving the Earthlift, Stertil Koni set out…

Cleaner roads are greener roads

With road dust accounting for up to 10% of particulate matter pollution in urban areas, road sweeping is a low-tech, efficient and affordable solution for improving UK air quality, writes Ben Williams from Bucher Municipal. Air pollution is a significant environmental…

Contract extension for SFS

Spelthorne Borough Council has extended its contract with SFS for another seven years, including maintenance, to replace the council’s current waste, recycling, and street cleansing fleet.  This is the second contract award by the council to Specialist Fleet Services, and…

Element 2 and Anglian Water partner to provide hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles in the UK

As a UK first, Element 2, a UK hydrogen infrastructure business, will purchase hydrogen produced by a new electrolyser using wastewater at Anglian Water’s Milton Road Cambridge water recycling site and supply it to hydrogen vehicles this summer. Producing green…

Applied Driving and VisionTrack join forces to create safe driving solution

Applied Driving has teamed up with VisionTrack, a creator of AI video telematics and connected vehicle data, to develop a video-enabled safe driving solution.  The companies will bring the benefits of automated risk reduction together, 360-degree vision and cloud-based video…

Electra launches the UK’s first compact 12.5-tonne electric zero-emission waste fleet platform

Electra Commercial Vehicles, the zero-emissions OEM based in Lancashire, has launched its all-new, 12.5-tonne eCargo, electric waste vehicle platform.   These electric vehicles are the first in the industry in their weight class in the UK. They have been designed with…