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

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than freight trains, and 7 µg/m 3 more under calm wind conditions, suggesting our study underestimates emissions and subsequent concentrations of coal train dust. Resources Cite this article Ostro, B., The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32 Coal trains contributed 2 to 3 µg/m 3 more of PM 2.5 µg/m 3 (95% CI = 6.2,

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Uber reports success with Tesla rental program after 1 year

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metric tonnes of carbon emissions, or roughly 2.1 Trips completed by Hertz Tesla vehicles in San Francisco and Oakland during the weeks of November 21, 2021, and May 22, 2022, respectively. What do you think of the article? In turn, the program has prevented 19.9k million gallons of gas, from being burned.

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

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As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. Ten states have now adopted California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which will require manufacturers to produce increasing numbers of zero-emission trucks over the next two decades.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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WEBSTER • FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR• April 21, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. is already selling an all-electric, zero-emission Roadster.

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