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Distances traveled on the road and in the air: 1970-2015

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Furthermore, the focus here is not on total distances but on distances per person, because the U.S. The calculated average passenger-distances traveled per person are shown in the table below, along with the average occupancy rates from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

Cars That Think

Perhaps the maskitball was no match for personal headphones to tune out annoying colleagues. In 2000, the Bose Corp. As for the AAC, production ceased in the early 1980s. The Sony Walkman had debuted in 1979, providing workers the ability to listen to music without disturbing their neighbors.

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Lotus is betting its future on the electric sports car, can it deliver?

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The Evija is a handmade EV hypercar that makes nearly 2000 horsepower. Statistically, no buyer of any new mass-produced car wants an “old car” experience — sports car or not. Lotus will begin delivering them later this year. Only 130 will be built. I’ve also yet to drive it myself, so I may well eat my words here; I recognize that.

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Roskill: world copper market size previously underestimated; EVs to account for 3.1-4.0Mt net growth by 2035

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This new original data has been used to verify historical time series statistics of apparent and reported refined copper consumption and to calculate new unique series of direct scrap use volumes that are now the most comprehensive and accurate available to the industry. Growth driven by demand for electrical properties.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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This is not to say there is not going to be intense personal and economic pain faced by tens of thousands of workers across multiple industries during the transition to EVs at scale. It will be easy to view these figures as abstract statistics, unfortunately, and not as actual individuals whose livelihoods are disrupted.

Market 102