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AUGUST 21, 2020

There are now 21,885 EVs registered in Illinois, up from fewer than 8,000 registered EVs in 2017, according to the Secretary of State’s office. ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, a Fortune 100 energy company with approximately 10 million electricity and natural gas customers—the largest number of customers in the US.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

million users in France in 2017. French government data from 2017 show that 90% of the registered private hire vehicles, which includes Uber, were diesel cars. The number of Uber drivers in London almost doubled in three years (from 25,000 in 2016 to 45,000 in 2018), accounting for roughly half the total PHV licence number.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Today, the 2017 Kia Niro, Optima Hybrid, and Optima Plug-In Hybrid debut at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, and Tesla Motors reveals a little more information about the upcoming unveiling of its Model 3 electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2016

And for the 2017 model year, the Optima Hybrid model gets the same upgrades as the gasoline versions launched for 2016. Unveiled last month at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, the 2016 Kia Optima Hybrid uses the new Optima.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

fleet-wide fuel efficiency by 2020; and the new 2017 Optima Hybrid and Optima Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV), introduced today at the Chicago Auto Show and due later this year, are key additions to the brand’s lineup to achieve that. Kia aims for a 25-percent increase in its U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

Lyft and General Motors are expanding their Express Drive short-term vehicle access program ( earlier post ) to California and Colorado, including the new 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV ( earlier post ). The expansion follows successful launches in Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C. and Baltimore.

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JUNE 21, 2021

November 2017: Powered SAF in JAL flight from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Narita Airport (A5, Alcohol to Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) ). January 2019: Powered SAF in JAL flight from San Francisco International Airport to Haneda Airport (A2).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

Winslow Dumaine was heading to a store on Chicago’s North Side when he saw it: a hole in the sidewalk on Roscoe Street with an uncanny resemblance to a rodent. Had to make a pilgrimage to the Chicago Rat Hole,” he wrote in a social media post this month, including a close-up photo of the concrete cutout.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

155 hours) ranked as the most congested two cities in the US—more than 15 hours per year more than the next most congested cities, Chicago (138 hours) and Seattle (138 hours). 2,161), Seattle ($1,932), Chicago ($1,920) and New York City ($1,859). Boston (164 hours lost due to congestion) and Washington D.C. Wichita, Kan.,

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Electrify America also will continue to invest in these Cycle 1 metros: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC. These metro areas are expected to account for more than 50% of expected battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in operation outside California through 2022 (Navigant, 2017).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Midwest EVOLVE launched in early 2017 with more than 60 partners, including automakers, utilities, state agencies, municipalities, dealerships, and dealer associations. The project was announced at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

In November 2017, Gevo’s ATJ was used by eight commercial airlines for Fly Green Day, sponsored by the O’Hare Fuel Committee, at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Like the Fly Green Day at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2017, Gevo’s renewable jet fuel was supplied using the general fuel system at Brisbane Airport.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pike Research forecasts that annual sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will reach 358,959 vehicles by 2017, representing a compound anual growth rate (CAGR) of 43% between 2011 and 2017. of total light-duty vehicle sales in 2017. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI. penetration, respectively.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Once operational, the Centerpoint plant will divert and process approximately 700,000 tons of waste from the Greater Chicago area. In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada. Fulcrum’s Centerpoint plant will be the company’s second waste-to-fuels plant.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Pike projections of cumulative light duty plug-in electric vehicle sales, 10 largest MSAs by population, 2011-2017. Overall, Pike expects sales of PEVs to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43% between 2011 and 2017, reaching a nationwide total of 358,959 vehicles by 2017. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The Chanje all-electric large delivery style vans will become available for Ryder ChoiceLease and rental customers in most of the above markets by the end of 2017. markets, as well as in the Chicago and New York markets, with the latest technology in commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging. Earlier post.)

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JULY 6, 2017

The INRIX On-Street Parking service is live with BMW Group in 16 cities in Germany and the US, with more cities set to launch in 2017. According to the recent INRIX Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Consumer Survey, 72% of respondents said real-time parking availability is the navigation feature they desire the most.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

On average since mid-2017, the US port district of Houston-Galveston has accounted for slightly more than half of the crude oil exported from the United States, and the share increased to a record 70% in May. This district has on average accounted for close to a quarter of all US crude oil exports since mid-2017. Census Bureau.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While automobile-centric sunbelt cities such as Dallas (ranked 19 th ) and Phoenix (ranked 23 rd ) have a lower proportion of 0-1 mile trips (18% and 17%, respectively) compared to denser cities such as Chicago or New York (both 22%), the small variation across all metros indicates the universal suitability for micromobility services, INRIX says.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Baer worked as a consultant for the Chicago-based toy company Marvin Glass. That’s how he and Morrison wound up at the 1976 Music Operators of America trade show in Chicago, where they saw the demonstration of Touch Me. One shaped like Darth Vader’s head was introduced in 2017; it features the first four notes of Vader’s leitmotif.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

As the head of Chicago-based SiNode Systems, Mayekar confronts the challenges of battery commercialization daily. Dravid (2017) “Applying insights from the pharma innovation model to battery commercialization—pros, cons, and pitfalls” MRS Energy & Sustainability doi: 10.1557/mre.2017.12. Hanson, Samir Mayeka and Vinayak P. 2017.12.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Six days ago, Reuters broke the story that GM would indeed build and sell the Chevrolet Bolt electric car, but that production would start late next year--not in 2017 as previously expected.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2015

Today, we have an owner''s concern over a potential safety issue with the Tesla Model S electric car, details on the 2016 BMW X5 xDrive 40e plug-in hybrid SUV, and plans for UberX drivers to use the Chinese BYD e6 electric car in Chicago. We''ve got 2017 Nissan Leaf rumors, a look at Tesla''s battery-swapping. Today in Car News'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Kia unveiled three major hybrid offerings at the Chicago Auto Show: the 2017 Niro Hybrid Utility Vehicle; the new Optima Hybrid; and the new Optima Plug-in Hybrid. The 2017 Optima Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) is Kia’s first PHEV. The 2017 Optima PHEV was engineered with a dual focus on efficiency and driving dynamics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Idling, especially in major cities such as Chicago, is very costly. Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Muller, Randall Walsh (2017) “The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail: Evidence From Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota” NBER Working Paper No. —Clay et al. 23852 doi: 10.3386/w23852.

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JULY 23, 2018

From 1996 to 2017, annual capital investment by these utilities for electric distribution systems nearly doubled, which was similar to increases in transmission investment over the same time period. This increase has been largely driven by increases in capital investment.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Otherwise, you may spend hours caught in traffic, as many discovered after the 2017 eclipse. Data from the 2017 total eclipse, which also took place on a Monday, showed about 41 percent less traffic leaving destinations on Tuesday, compared with Monday, Ms. And take off the next day, too, if you can.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. With cars and other large durable goods, people create a “mental account” in which the expensive item slowly depreciates in value over time, eventually reaching zero, after which people think about replacing it.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Toyota pulled the sheet off the Grand Highlander at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show , showing not only a stretched version of their popular SUV, but also some premium touches that make it “grand” in more ways than length. Like the Highlander, the Grand Highlander has three rows but the third row now is more accommodating. Photos by Toyota. [

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

For example, one of North America’s largest coke refineries is on the southeast side of Chicago. Klein, and Avner Vengosh (2017) “Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715500114. —William Schlesinger. Schlesinger, Emily M. 1715500114.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In aggregate, the Electrify America first cycle investment will aim to establish a network of approximately 2500+ non-proprietary chargers across 450+ individual stations.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

In October, strategy consultancy Roland Berger updated its 2010 report on the Li-ion battery business in which it warned that only six to eight global players in rechargeable battery business would survive through to 2017. Wendt, Partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants’ Chicago office. —Thomas F.

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JUNE 20, 2018

The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index jumped to 1,187 in early trading on Friday, the highest level since July 2017. dollar to go up, which is putting downward pressure on prices,” Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, told Reuters. The greenback has strengthened about 6 percent in the past two months. “(ECB

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

With its efforts on Libra, Facebook drew a compelling picture of the plight of those excluded from banking—not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in South Central Los Angeles and the South Side of Chicago. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We spent about 18 months developing the first battery pack, and went to production with that vehicle around May 2017. The initiation of the Proterra Energy business unit was around late 2017. Some of our more involved projects are the Chicago Transit Authority, and also Foothill Transit, which was our very first customer.

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JULY 1, 2019

Among these flights were the three most frequently flown routes in the United Sates (New York to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Chicago to New York); the shortest flight that is code shared with a major U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Fast-forward to 2017. But where that scarcity issue is, is where all the fleets are: Chicago, New York City, primarily in the big cities where you’re going to get first-mover adoption. I helped them source it, pulled together partners, and they either white-labeled it or built it on their own. Smith Electric didn’t succeed.

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