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INRIX and Parkmobile bring end-to-end parking solution to the connected car

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Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Houston. INRIX launched the industry’s first dynamic off-street parking service in 2013, followed by the first integrated on-street parking solution in June 2015. Parkmobile’s solutions are available in 35 of the top 100 U.S. cities, including Washington D.C.,

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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The markets of Charlotte, Detroit, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, and Virginia Beach showed charging infrastructure growth of approximately 30% to 80%, corresponding with at least a doubling of their electric vehicle uptake from 2015 to 2016.

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UCLA researchers develop exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal nanocomposite

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of Minneapolis; and Suveen Mathaudhu of UC Riverside. Lian-Yi Chen, Jia-Quan Xu, Hongseok Choi, Marta Pozuelo, Xiaolong Ma, Sanjit Bhowmick, Jenn-Ming Yang, Suveen Mathaudhu & Xiao-Chun Li (2015) “Processing and properties of magnesium containing a dense uniform dispersion of nanoparticles” Nature 528, 539–543 doi: 10.1038/nature16445.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.” General Mills , in Minneapolis, secured the contract with a bid of US $498,500, according to the Eos article. During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C.,

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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

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Long (2015) “Cooperative insertion of CO 2 in diamine-appended metal-organic frameworks” Nature doi: 10.1038/nature14327. Schnell, Nora Planas, Kyuho Lee, Tod Pascal, Liwen F. Wan, David Prendergast, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Berend Smit, Jeffrey B. Kortright, Laura Gagliardi, Silvia Bordiga, Jeffrey A. Reimer & Jeffrey R.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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