Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Called Reinventing Public Urban Transportation and Mobility ( RITMO ), the proposed system combines aspects of Uber-style ridesharing, fixed-route buses and light rail into the hub-and-shuttle system. It’s similar in some ways to the ride sharing that’s available now, but much more sophisticated. —Pascal Van Hentenryck.

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Michigan Connect Connected Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Carmakers need to reduce the weight of their vehicles in order to meet future regulations; currently-enacted regulations in Europe (tailpipe emissions) come into full force in 2015 and those for the USA (tailpipe emissions and fuel economy) come into full force in 2021. Fuel Efficiency Materials Weight reduction'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Freescale Semiconductor introduced the FXTH87 tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) family—the smallest integrated package TPMS solution available at an extremely light weight of 0.3 According to IHS iSuppli, TPMS will represent more than 25% of the total pressure measurement market for automotive sensors by 2015.

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Taiwan Fuel Economy United States Available Now 294

Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimating that the country will need 28 million charging ports by 2030 to accommodate the 33 million light-duty electrics projected to be on the road by then. Between 2015 and 2020, the number of charging ports more than doubled , and in 2021 alone, it surged by over 55%.

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