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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

Green Car Congress

The LTD Board of Directors is now developing ambitious emission reduction goals for its fleet, and the partnership with New Flyer and commitment to investing in electric vehicles is an important part of its carbon reduction strategy. More than half use electric hybrid propulsion, helping to lower emissions from public transit.

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Stellantis Cancels Ram 1500 Classic in Canada, America Next?

The Truth About Cars

For starters, mention of the truck for a 2024 model year has never been part of the brand’s build-and-price tool in that country, despite dealers in the area having the things parked cheek-to-jowl on their lots. After all, Ford did something similar with the F-150 way back in 2004 when that model was extensively redesigned.

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Ford explains high performance F-150 Lightning teaser

Teslarati

The vehicles allow the Blue Oval to test out the most extreme performance ideas on one of its familiar vehicle platforms, which results in innovation eventually reaching consumer offerings. Ford concluded its statement to Teslarati saying, “ demonstrators are a key part of our Motorsports strategy.”

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Build Long-Range IoT Applications Fast With Meshtastic

Cars That Think

For me, it’s mesh radio systems, which first captivated me while I was zipping around downtown Las Vegas back in 2004. I turned to my next test idea—exchanging real-time data and commands via the network. The tricky part was mapping the pin names as labeled on the adapter with the corresponding microcontroller pins.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

Baua Electric

He apologized, bowing deeply, and stressed the group vision was rooted in the Toyoda founding family’s ideas of empowering the “genba,” or the workers on the plant floor, “to make good cars that lead to people’s happiness.” In April, a whistleblower exposed that Daihatsu Motor Corp.,

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

Cars That Think

students, postdocs, collaborators, and the team at CMT who have worked incredibly hard in creative ways to take research ideas and have them really impact the world,” he says. “It Between 1999 and 2004, he oversaw the development of the Cricket indoor location system. It honors the field of mobile sensing and networked systems.”

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Basic transportation, EV style

Electric Auto Association

That was back in 2004, when his father taught him how to ride his 1980’s-vintage gas-powered version. Meant to be As part of the outreach pillar of the competition, Javier, turned to the Electric Auto Association (EAA). We wanted to be part of an organization that shares the same ideas as we do about electric transportation.”