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GM’s Maven and Uber to pilot flexible car-sharing offer

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Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, and Uber Technologies, Inc., The 90-day pilot will launch in San Francisco as part of Uber’s Vehicle Solutions program, which provides driver-partners flexible options to access vehicles they can drive on the Uber platform. with more on the way.

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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. —Professor Gurney.

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. Because they couldn’t conduct in-person interviews due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the students used Facebook to find people with vision problems and ask about their needs.

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Man sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for selling $9 million in fraudulent renewable fuel credits

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According to evidence presented at the six day trial, Hailey owned Clean Green Fuel, LLC, located in the Baltimore, Md. Today’s sentence shows that there are serious consequences, including jail time, for defrauding the renewable fuels program for personal gain. He has been detained since the guilty verdict.

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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The researchers also mapped local emissions in 5,695 US cities, finding the highest emissions-related mortality rate in Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year due to long-term exposure to air pollution. —Caiazzo et al. Fabio Caiazzo, Akshay Ashok, Ian A. Waitz, Steve H.L. Yim, Steven R.H.

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I drove the new Tesla Model 3, here’s what got better

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To me, it’s too much of a process to perform these simple tasks, and the lack of things to look at is something I personally do not enjoy. There was not very much creaking or movement from these parts , which can sometimes be cheap and seem like an inferior quality. I do understand the appeal, though. It’s tough to say.

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Letting in the Light

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All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. Martin had been working on LEVs in STEM programs and the EV Challenge.

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