A Ducati 800SS run by Team Inzane has recorded an important win at the Snetterton race track powered by Biofuel.

The motorbike, which competes in the UK Mini Twins category is powered by bioethanol E85 - a blend of fuel distilled from biomass and 15 per cent petrol. Dan Rapson, EEMS project manager, said: “This is a great achievement by the team and demonstrates just how compatible the energy efficiency message is with the spectable of exciting motorsport”. 

The team was support by government initiative Energy Efficiency in Motor Sport EEMS.

LMS have moved the company car fleet to a 100% carbon neutral car insurance company. As LMS work on a number of governmental fuel initiatives it was important that we do our bit to save the planet, commented Kevin Taylor, Managing Director.

Making our company car journeys carbon neutral by offsetting the emissions our vehicle produce helps balance the impact our driving is having on the environment. Carbon Dioxide (Co2) - a major greenhouse gas - naturally present in the atmosphere at low levels, but on the increase due mainly to the use of fossil fuels. The money we pay to offset the CO2 emissions goes to purchase carbon credits from a portfolio of projects - helping the wider world.    

Urea prices reached record highs in June 2008, increasing the pressure on the AdBlue market’s already tight margins. With additional pressure from the soaring price of automotive diesel, and growing doubt over the health of the commercial vehicles market AdBlue suppliers are heading for uncertain times.

The root causes of skyrocketing oil prices remained unclear at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid this week, but one thing was becoming increasingly evident. Access to “easy oil” will henceforth be “limited”, as Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer put it, while BP boss Tony Hayward spoke of the era of “cheap energy” being over. Read the rest of this entry »

This week the Honda Motor Co. rolled its first hydrogen-powered vehicles off the assembly line. In development for 16 years, the cars run on fuel cells that get the equivalent of 74 miles to the the gallon. Each vehicle costs upwards of $100,000, but Honda says the price will quickly go down as it goes into mass production. The only hitch: Hydrogen fuel stations are few and far between, and Honda is waiting for the infrastructure to catch up to the technology. Read the rest of this entry »

German RFID fuel management manufacturer Hectronic has developed a system to provide accurate fuel management data. The key components do away with a manual ‘key driven’ fuel terminal using RF interaction to authorise, dispense and conclude all refuelling activities. The hardware fits the refuelling activity of a logistics RDC as drivers merely have to place their RF refuelling nozzle into the RF enabled fuel tank neck. The Hectronic system uses a true RF connection between vehicle transmitter, fuel nozzle, and RF enabled fuel terminal.

The Government has announced from March 2008 up to £850,000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund to support the training of aggregates sector truck drivers in greener, sager driving techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

New rules, which aim to make transport fuel greener are putting millions of people in the developing world at risk of being driven off their lands, it has been claimed.

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The BBC web site reports that oil prices hit a new record high on Monday March 3rd, driven by the falling dollar and fading hopes of more supplies  US light, sweet crude made $103.95 a barrel, before dropping back to trade at $102.45.  London Brent also hit a record $102.  Analysts blamed the falling dollar, which makes oil an attractive investment  speculators and warn that it looks unlikely that oil exporters’ cartel Opec will raise production to help ease prices.

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British MPs have told the European Union to abandon new biofuel targets because they may do more harm to the environment than good. Read the rest of this entry »