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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

The US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently pledged that America will achieve carbon neutrality for its aviation sector by 2050. Shell aims to produce around 2 million tons of SAF per year by 2025. The test showed no observable operational difference between the two. Aviation Industry Trends & Uncertainties.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. It's just a test, but it won't take five years for live operation. I predicted robot taxis and trucks by 2020. The future has arrived, at least in Japan.

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Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry in 2022

Epicflow

Also, the technologies are expected to be used in transportation network applications and in autonomous vehicles. [4] Increase in investments in battery recycling: among other reasons, this is explained by the new EU regulation that will oblige auto manufacturers to recycle up to 65% of their EV battery content by 2025. .

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Robots, Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy 5.1 Million Jobs by 2020

MishTalk

But gains in financial operations? I expect millions of truck hauling and taxi jobs will vanish soon, in the USA alone, by 2025. Moreover, it is now possible to create cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats that are completely or partly autonomous, which could revolutionize transportation, if regulations allow, as early as 2020.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Uber Also based in San Francisco and launched more recently in 2010, Uber uses a smartphone app to receive requests of people needing transportation, and then sends out these requests to their drivers who transport the customers to their final destinations. billion since its launch.

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How General Mills and Kellogg Are Tackling Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Harvard Business

In the global effort to limit climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), the energy and transportation sectors are the most obvious targets, but perhaps not be the biggest. The companies’ goals as stated, are fairly straightforward: General Mills will cut absolute GHGs by 28% by 2025 “across the entire value chain.”

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How the Natural Resources Business Is Turning into a Technology Industry

Harvard Business

At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.