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Read Your Way Through New Orleans

Baua Electric

The city is an eclectic mix of Caribbean, French, Spanish and Native American cultures, and, depending on which neighborhood you encounter, you may feel a sense of disorientation. Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas ,” by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker, is a collection of essays that touches on almost every neighborhood in the city.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Let me tell you about it.

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Los Angeles to receive more than $200M in state grants for active transportation projects

Green Car Congress

In 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation creating the Active Transportation Program (ATP) in the Department of Transportation (Senate Bill 99, Chapter 359 and Assembly Bill 101, Chapter 354). They are: Skid Row Connectivity and Safety Project ($38.6 Osborne Street: Path to Park Access Project ($42.3

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Ford first to test autonomous vehicle at U Michigan Mcity

Green Car Congress

Ford has been testing autonomous vehicles for more than 10 years and is now expanding testing on the diversity of roads and realistic neighborhoods of Mcity near the North Campus Research Complex to accelerate research of advanced sensing technologies. The 32-acre facility is part of the university’s Mobility Transformation Center.

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A Red Velvet Bistro in an Istanbul Villa

Baua Electric

Inside a sprawling villa in the neighborhood of Etiler, a wood-paneled dining room on the ground floor serves Debensason’s varied menu of dishes like tuna sashimi with sushi rice ice cream and a seasonal mushroom risotto. She’s also releasing a new collection of Unity rings meant to connect the past to the present. 4 through Feb.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

In 2013, 3,154 people died and 424,000 others were injured in motor vehicle crashes on US roads involving driver distraction, says the US Department of Transportation. The studies are fifth and sixth since 2013 by University of Utah psychologists and funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. —David Strayer. Methodology.

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Road Test: 2022 Maserati Ghibli Trofeo

Clean Fleet Report

The Maserati Ghibli Trofeo drew stares, which is saying something in car-crazy Southern California, where every exotic is roaming free on the highways and can be found tucked away behind gates in tony neighborhoods. Ours was painted in Blu Emozione with a broad cream stripe that ran the center of the car, front to rear.