Category: Electric

The Seychelles Public Transport Corporation is Getting 22 Electric Buses!

The Seychelles Public Transport Corporation operates a fleet of about 250 buses of different types. They have 28-, 38-, and 52-seater buses. Most of them are made by TATA Motors from India. The Seychelles Nation newspaper reports that the Seychelles Public Transport Corporation’s (SPTC) fleet replacement policy stipulates that buses can only be kept in […]

Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems

Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]

Gas, Gas, Baby — Gas Crises In Australia

It is hard to choose the right metaphor. Has the Australian gas industry shot itself in the foot, painted itself into a corner, or is it just throwing a hissy fit? Maybe it has just lost the plot? Perhaps breathing too much of its own product? Gas, gas baby! Recent Australian government legislation has capped […]

FedEx Expands Electric Cart Routes in New York City

When we talk about the “last mile” in delivery, there’s a part of that last mile that we often leave out: the last few yards. The rest of the mile before that is usually trucks that come from a local depot of some kind to drop packages to customers, but that doesn’t mean the packages […]