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GILLIG posts highest score for battery-electric bus at Altoona

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GILLIG Battery Electric Bus by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), Charlotte, North Carolina. The FTA introduced a 100-point scoring system in 2016 to better inform buyers by offering an unbiased, standardized assessment of vehicle durability, safety, and performance. Report Number: LTI-BT-R2021-12 ).

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas. Electric vehicle share of new 2016 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area. Source: The ICCT.

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SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

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Such approaches, however, can ultimately become limited by mass transport and/or catalyst conductivity. The researchers still don’t know exactly why this surface layer is so active, although the theorists, including SUNCAT graduate students Colin Dickens and Charlotte Kirk, have provided some ideas. —Thomas Jaramillo.

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Charlie represents EV Driver in India

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It was organised by Earnest & Young India and we spoke to various secretary's to government in the transport sector as well as their teams and then various leaders from the private sector, which was really exciting! Because most of the EV’s they’d seen were 4 wheelers (cars), but 90% of their transport is on 2 wheels.

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‘The Plane Is Fine’: An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

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Flying is objectively low-risk, and 2023 was the safest year for jet travel ever, according to the International Air Transport Association. Another 70 to 75 percent, he said, “think that something bad will happen to the plane — there will be a fire, the engine will fall off, the pilot is drunk, it’s going to crash.” (The

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