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Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

Green Car Congress

The authors emphasized that their findings do not specifically address an individual’s health risk or the personal benefits of cleaner air, but rather assess population level health impacts. Cleveland (Elyria), OH: 196 lives saved, 487 fewer morbidities and 231,859 fewer impacted days.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

When we raced the Lightnings in Cleveland, the organizers had to pay to be on the schedule, but they had money from electric utilities,” Erb explained. “We Last summer, under the leadership of Carlos Ruiz de Quevedo, the chapter took part in a street fair in Hendersonville. We show up at a parking lot and we’ll shoot the breeze.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

Cars That Think

president Grover Cleveland officially opened the extravaganza by pressing a golden telegraph key that symbolically switched on 100,000 incandescent lights. It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. Twenty years after the. On 1 May 1893, U.S. Are we ready now?

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Cars That Think

AngGo is a personal mobility device that is suitable for the movement of passengers in huge indoor spaces such as convention centers or airports. Half of them are in the front part and the other half are in the rear part. Abstract: AngGo is a hands-free shared indoor smart mobility device for public use.

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