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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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According to company documents issued for its stock market launch, Uber is looking to increase massively its operations worldwide and is eyeing Europe in particular, identifying Germany, Spain and Italy as priority markets for expansion. This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6 million users in France in 2017.

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Tesla Model S Plaid, Long Range on car carriers spotted in Europe

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This car carrier was spotted in Antwerp, Belgium, near Zeebrugge, according to Esther Kokkelmans, who told Teslarati about the car carrier and recorded the video. Zeebrugge is the port in Belgium where Tesla had these cars shipped and delivered.

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Tesla ships more Model S and Model X to Europe, could it be HW4?

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The ship was in Baltimore on Tuesday and left several hours later after vehicles were loaded onto Höegh Oslo and was unloaded in both Zeebrugge, Belgium, as well as Barcelona, Spain. In mid-February, Hardware 4 vehicles were approved for operation and sale in the Netherlands, documents filed within the Dutch Vehicle Authority RDW revealed.

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AMITRAN project developing CO2 assessment methodology for intelligent transport systems

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Seven organisations are cooperating as part of AMITRAN’s consortium: TNO (coordinator, the Netherlands); PTV – Planung Transport Verkehr (Germany); ERTICO – ITS Europe (Belgium); TECNALIA (Spain); DLR – Germany National Research Center for Aeronautics and Space (Germany); ECORYS (the Netherlands); and TEAMNET (Romania). million (US$3.4

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The disk drive does in fact have a facility for automatically reading the first track of a disk, according to Nelson of Epyx, but because it is not documented, it is not widely used. Nonetheless, the Commodore 64 can display far more than the 16 colors listed in its documentation, in addition to its many other graphics features.

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