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Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

Green Car Congress

The move prompted lawsuits in federal and state courts from three companies and Utah, all of which argued it was unconstitutional. A settlement reached in 2021 keeps the law in place but gives the companies to 2027 to comply. Resources Cite this article Ostro, B., 2023) “The impact of coal trains on PM2.5

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Uber reports success with Tesla rental program after 1 year

Teslarati

Uber kicked off its Tesla rental program with Hertz roughly one year ago, and the company has published a report on its progress. Uber’s report , published by an analyst within the company, Rainer Lempert, details the Tesla rental program’s first year in operation. What do you think of the article?

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The heavy-duty electric truck market could break out in 2024 – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

For example, shipping giant Schneider acquired 92 Freightliner eCascadias in 2023 —a good start, but only that, considering that the company currently operates over 10,000 tractors. As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck.

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Stan Ovshinsky’s New Project

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details in the Detroit Free Press article: Panels may brighten job market. The company dropped the program as demand for sport-utility vehicles took center stage. He started a new company, Ovshinsky Innovations LLC. They have a small staff and are testing the product in Oakland County. by Carol Cain.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif., An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: After being sucker-punched first by the recession and then by the closure earlier this year of the NUMMI plant with its nearly 5,000 auto-worker jobs, the Bay Area’s fourth-largest city is suddenly coming to — buoyed by last week’s news that electric-car maker Tesla will jump-start NUMMI. By Patrick May.

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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

Cars That Think

—Edwin Catmull During the next five years the team created so many pioneering rendering technologies that when Catmull tried to list all its achievements years later, he opted to stop at four pages, according to an article on the history of Pixar. At first it was a hardware company,” Smith says. “We

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