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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

Green Car Congress

These activities will become a part of initiatives aimed at meeting the goals set out in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, which was announced in October, 2015. Protection of the spoon-billed sandpiper, an endangered species throughout the Talay Park coastal area in Thailand, as well as the promotion of bird tourism.

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

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GM has made three product commitments for 2017 related to its sustainability strategy: to have 500,000 vehicles on the road in the US with some form of electrification ( earlier post ); to double the number of US models that can achieve an EPA-estimated 40 mpg US (5.9 Earlier post.). The 2020 target was raised from 0.70 MWh per vehicle.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example.

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Airless tires look like the future for robotaxis, EVs, and more

Baua Electric

Toyota and the tire maker Sumitomo debuted weight-saving airless tires combined with in-wheel motors in a 2017 concept, noting then that it needed to make progress in cutting rolling resistance, which was still higher than inflated designs at the time.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

In Zeekr’s case, the endmost velocity of transport unutilized merchandise to the marketplace is as it’s a part of Geely Conserving. And that’s one a part of the undercover – the keeping with many EV fashions in its pipeline will rebadge one of the most vehicles below a unutilized model and starting it. It’s no longer.

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