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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Study finds GHG methane offsets its warming ~30% and precipitation increase ~60% by short-wave absorption

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The corresponding climate impacts, however, have been only indirectly evaluated and thus remain largely unquantified. This has implications for understanding in more detail how methane and perhaps other greenhouses gases can impact the climate system.

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Shell begins market test of Nitrogen Enriched Diesel; lowered fuel consumption

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It will be offered to both commercial as well as retail customers at select points of sale in the Nashville, TN; Baltimore, MD; and Richmond, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA areas. Anti-gel agents for colder winter climates will also be available where needed. Shell Nitrogen Enriched Diesel also helps guard against corrosion.

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Summer Update

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They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars. Keene, N.H.,

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GM will focus its electrification strategy on light electrification, extended range, and battery-electric vehicle technologies; major focus on the plug; preview of the Spark EV

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Like the battery system used in the Chevrolet Volt, the Spark EV’s battery uses an active liquid cooling and heating system, which ensures improved reliability over the life of the vehicle, while providing year-round performance in all climates. near Baltimore. simulating aggressive, hot-weather driving. This notion of GM.we