{"id":35351,"date":"2022-11-05T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=35351"},"modified":"2022-11-05T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T13:04:11","slug":"renault-sailing-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=35351","title":{"rendered":"Renault plans to sail \u2014 literally, sail \u2014 on new class of cargo ship &#8211; Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going green on the ocean may take another step toward reality in about two years, when Renault is expected to load automobiles aboard<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/car-news\/tech\/renault-neoline-wind-powered-car-shipping\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:0;\"> wind-powered ships<\/a> for delivery around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2018\/11\/27\/renault-sailing-cargo-ships-official\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:1;\">partnership between the car maker and Neoline<\/a>, a French-based company, aims to reduce Renault\u2019s global <a class=\"injectedLinkmain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/carbon+footprint\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:2;\">carbon footprint<\/a> by eliminating many of the <a class=\"injectedLinkmain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/emissions\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:3;\">emissions<\/a> from traditional fuel-powered cargo ships. Neoline officials said that, when propelled solely by the wind, their sailing ships&#8217; total <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2018\/11\/27\/renault-sailing-cargo-ships-official\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:4;\">emissions drop<\/a> by as much as 90 percent. The roll-on-roll-off ships will use solid sails that are 50 meters tall.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will start testing the program in 2024 by transporting vehicles to North America and other locales from Saint-Nazaire, in western France. Renault has pledged to achieve zero carbon in Europe by 2030 and worldwide by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Renault, now part of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaultgroup.com\/en\/our-company\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:5;\"> an alliance<\/a> with Nissan and Mitsubishi, hasn\u2019t sold cars in the U.S. market under its own brand name since 1987. A U.S. return as been considered for years, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2022\/11\/04\/nissan-renault-alliance-ev-talks\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:6;\">partners are now in talks that could reshape the alliance<\/a>. The shipper&#8217;s intent to deliver vehicles to North America is an intriguing wrinkle to those talks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.99em;\">The firm says that about 300 to 400 vehicles can be shipped on each Neoline vessel, although the loading will take longer that it would using a traditional cargo ship. A demonstration vessel shown was 446 feet in total length and had more than 45,000 square feet of sail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The partnership between Renault and Neoline was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2018\/11\/27\/renault-sailing-cargo-ships-official\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec:donut-hole;cpos:7;\">first announced in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going green on the ocean may take another step toward reality in about two years, when Renault is expected to load automobiles aboard wind-powered ships for delivery around the world. The partnership between the car maker and Neoline, a French-based company, aims to reduce Renault\u2019s global carbon footprint by eliminating many of the emissions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}