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LADOT wins $2M grant for DTLA “Code the Curb” pilot

Green Car Congress

The Homeless Count also revealed a 17% increase in tents, vehicles, and makeshift shelters on LA County’s streets and sidewalks from 2020.) This database will serve as a starting point for LADOT to standardize curb space management citywide.

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Audi introducing V2I Traffic Light Information service in Europe

Green Car Congress

From July, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt/Germany; further European cities will follow from 2020 onwards. This service is now available at more than 5,000 intersections in the US, for example in cities including Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland and Washington D.C.

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

The summer of 2020 brought wildfire to. Portland, Ore., Air purifiers surged in popularity through the second half of 2020 in response to dual airborne threats of COVID-19 and wildfire smoke. There's no common standard for efficiency, however, so shoppers must cross their fingers and hope for the best. Harry Campbell.

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Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance

Baua Electric

The plug tore away from the Alaska plane shortly after takeoff from Portland, Ore. Mr. Calhoun, who took over as chief executive in January 2020 after serving on the company’s board for years, vowed then that the company would “be better” and would hold “ourselves accountable to the highest standards of safety and quality.”

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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

For this example, I’m looking at charging options for the 2020 Hyundai Kona. If I use EV Life’s Road Trip calculator to drive from San Francisco to Portland in the Hyundai Kona, I can see that I’ll need to make three stops along the way to recharge and spend about $45 on fuel. Home Charging Options. Level 1 Chargers.

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Rocsys robots help to make EV fleet charging more reliable

Charged EVs

Netherlands-based Rocsys makes robotic devices that allow EVs to be charged without human intervention (see the feature in our January/February 2020 issue). However, widespread adoption of self-driving EVs probably lies pretty far in the future (and doesn’t seem much closer now than it did back in early 2020). Crijn Bouman: Yes.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It’s called Electric Island.

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