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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

Cars That Think

These projects don’t get as much attention as the race for better batteries and ever-more gargantuan battery factories, but they will be no less vital to the future of electrified transportation. El-Refaie originated the GE program in dual-phase materials in 2005.

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US PIRG report finds reduced driving and rates of car commuting in most populous US urbanized areas

Green Car Congress

The urbanized areas containing two Wisconsin cities, Milwaukee and Madison, saw the second and third biggest drops in per-capita VMT: 21% and 18%, respectively. The number of passenger-miles traveled per capita on transit increased in 60 out of 98 of America’s large urbanized areas whose trends could be analyzed between 2005 and 2010.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Different types of non-ownership alternatives promise to be the way of the future. Enterprise Car Share Although Enterprise is known as a car rental giant, they have expanded into cars sharing in 2005, later featuring a program rich in hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars. In the U.S.

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