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Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

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Public and personal transportation will be fully integrated to save time, conserve resources and lower emissions. Bill Ford began talking about the future of personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion last year at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. Click to enlarge.

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SpaceX sets new goals for Falcon booster reuse goals after ten-flight milestone

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” Never one to personally rest or allow his companies to rest on their laurels, SpaceX now has a new target to strive for as teams work to ramp and sustain Falcon 9’s launch cadence at record-breaking levels. .” SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is dominating global orbital launches in 2021. Richard Angle).

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California Air Resources Board breaks ground for new $419M lab, headquarters in Riverside; $154M from VW settlement

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Construction costs of $419 million, which include $108 million for specialized laboratory and testing equipment, were approved by the Legislature in July. Of those costs, $154 million comes from fines paid by Volkswagen for air quality violations related to the diesel car cheating case.

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Electrify Your Fleet Faster With Incentives and Rebates

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The plummeting costs of technology haven’t hurt either — Ceres reported that electric vehicle battery costs , alone, dropped by 80% from 2012 to 2020. Here are just a few incentives you can seek out to lower the cost of your transition and offset the costs of installing the necessary charging infrastructure.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Generally each person contributes assets and share risks. COP15 , United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.

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Report finds road transportation sector in Canada likely to fall far short of 2050 GHG emissions reduction target

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A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. However, the report also notes that the abatement costs for some of these technologies are much higher than the current cost of carbon. —“A Long Hard Road”.

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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion

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Then I would invariably add this rider but not at the expense of jobs, at the expense of ordinary people’s cost of living, and with the effect of driving important industries offshore to countries that don’t take emissions as seriously as we do,” he said. Personally, I think it’s time for fines to be levied on wilful stupidity.