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New Mexico to enact advanced Clean Car & Clean Truck rules

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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the state will move to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars and Advanced Clean Trucks rules, which will set annual targets for the sale of new zero emission cars and trucks in New Mexico over time.

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New Mexico adopts Clean Cars Rule

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The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) have each adopted the Clean Car Rule after a joint public hearing. —New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Cabinet Secretary James Kenney.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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A recent study published in the Journal of Transport Geography has alleged that “car harm” cannot be undone by the world pivoting to all-electric vehicles.& The report is even entitled “ Car harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment.” However, the paper offers no automotive-based solutions.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I’ve prospered in that environment. After he got his degree in 1973, the lab hired him full time as a researcher. With encouragement from his colleagues to pursue a Ph.D., You follow your own path and course of research,” he says.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We With power hardware-in-the-loop capabilities, they can test physical devices, such as the controllers built by Rashkin's team, in simulated environments, like a lunar-base simulator. “We

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

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INRIX, a leading global connected car services and transportation analytics company, has created a scalable and customizable scoring system to prioritize corridors for the deployment of highly autonomous vehicles (HAVs). Albuquerque. —Avery Ash, autonomous vehicle market strategist at INRIX. INRIX HAV City Score. New Orleans.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. Recent estimates suggest that the carbon emissions resulting from developing and training a natural-language processing algorithm are greater than those produced by four cars over their lifetimes.

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