OTR tractor trailer Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Department of Energy to Fund Zero-Emissions Cargo Transportation Technology https://www.greenoptimistic.com/department-energy-fund-zero-emissions-cargo-transportation-technology-20140505/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/department-energy-fund-zero-emissions-cargo-transportation-technology-20140505/#comments Mon, 05 May 2014 19:39:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47330 While zero-emissions transportation is still a fairly new field, zero-emissions cargo transportation is practically unheard-of. Cargo transportation, the backbone of which, at least in the United States, is the over-the-road (OTR) tractor trailer and the diesel locomotive, generates millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases. OTR tractor trailers, for example, generated ≈400 MMT (million metric […]

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