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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

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In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., In addition, the city of Torrance will test a plug-in hybrid as a part of the program in 2012. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Click to enlarge.

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

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The team equipped two Google Street View vehicles with the fast-response Aclima Ei measurement and data acquisition platform and repeatedly sampled every street in a 30-km 2 area of Oakland, CA, over the course of a year, developing the largest urban air quality data set of its type. —Apte et al. Kirchstetter, Melissa M. 7b00891.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. So Tesla knew it had to set up its own fast-charging network, which it started to do in the fall of 2012, actually. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. So Tesla knew it had to set up its own fast-charging network, which it started to do in the fall of 2012, actually. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.