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11% of Boston Public Schools bus fleet to run on propane

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Boston Public Schools will operate 11% of its bus fleet with Blue Bird propane autogas buses, starting with the 2015-2016 school year. Like many urban cities, Boston has implemented mandates for reducing tailpipe emissions. About 40% of its fleet consists of 169-inch wheelbase buses.

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Study: Even small amounts of PM2.5 may have long-term health effects on developing fetus

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2016

In a paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , the researchers say the findings add to the growing evidence that the air a pregnant woman breathes could have long-term health consequences for her child and that current US Environmental Protection Agency air pollution standards may not be stringent enough. —Xiaobin Wang.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In terms of implementation, residential conservation standards were found to be goal-effective, cost-effective, scale-effective, and in the case of new construction standards, reasonably resistant to local political pushback. Local compact growth programs do not perform as well.

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Hilux, Ranger EV ute conversions by Roev from $47,990 as company confirms 2023 production

EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As well as conversions of new Ford Rangers and Toyota Hiluxes – the two top selling utes in the country – which will be priced from $47,990 (plus the cost of the ute), Roev is gearing up for EV conversions of the same utes with build dates as far back as 2016. 2023 Roev electric Toyota HiLux.

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BCG forecasts electrified vehicles to take half of global auto market by 2030; hybrids to dominate

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In a new report (its fourth on electric car adoption) the Boston Consulting Group forecasts that a combination of hybrid and fully electric powertrains will cut the global market share of pure internal combustion engines (ICEs) by about 50% by 2030.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. And, as the economist Bharat Anand points out in his celebrated 2016 book The Content Trap , proprietary complements tend to be more profitable than non-proprietary ones. Ford further built machines which could stamp out parts automatically.

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Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2023

As early as 2016, he declared that “all Tesla vehicles exiting the factory have hardware necessary for Level 5 autonomy”—meaning that cars with cameras and computers alone have what’s needed for fully autonomous driving. The latest prototype lidar system from Analog Photonics shows off its capabilities at a busy intersection in Boston.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

The classic example of path dependence is the establishment of the conventional QWERTY keyboard standard on typewriters in the late 19th century and computers thereafter. Before the Great Boston Fire of 1872, the value of much real estate had been held down by the presence of crumbling buildings nearby. The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We also know that Boston Dynamics is actually using only optimal control. An event camera is a camera that has also pixels, but differently from a standard camera, an event camera only sends information when there is motion. But the key difference with a standard camera is that an event camera works in differential mode.

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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The 1964 Oklahoma City tests involved more than 1,000 flights, which sparked more than 15,000 complaints, as documented in a 1971 report prepared by the National Bureau of Standards. Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms. Boom Supersonic.

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11% of Boston Public Schools bus fleet to run on propane

Study: Even small amounts of PM2.5 may have long-term health effects on developing fetus

Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

Hilux, Ranger EV ute conversions by Roev from $47,990 as company confirms 2023 production

BCG forecasts electrified vehicles to take half of global auto market by 2030; hybrids to dominate

First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

The New Supersonic Boom

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