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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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Machine learning PODA model projects the impact of COVID-19 on US motor gasoline demand

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They found that under the reference infection scenario, US gasoline demand grows slowly after a quick rebound in May, and is unlikely to recover to a non-pandemic level prior to October 2020. The Motor Gasoline Demand Estimation Module quantifies motor gasoline demands due to the changes in travel mobility. —Ou et al.

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Ron DeSantis to fasten Elon Musk on Twitter Wednesday to announce 2024 run

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Nonetheless, Musk has cultivated ties with Republicans, together with Area Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and inspired his thousands and thousands of Twitter fans to vote for a GOP Congress forward of the 2022 midterms. Musk praised South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who introduced his personal bid for the Republican nomination on Monday.

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GM invests $300M in Momenta to deliver next-generation self-driving technologies in China

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Momenta is committed to developing breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions to push beyond the frontier of possibilities today and significantly improve personal mobility experiences. —Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. —Xudong Cao, CEO of Momenta.

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TRB releases new report identifying deficiencies impacting e-scooter rider safety

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The report, released under the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP), found that available data and research evaluating e-scooter safety are lagging behind the rapid adoption and expansion of this form of transportation commonly referred to as micromobility.

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Luminar and Volvo Cars release of comprehensive lidar dataset; 250m range

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All images have gone through an anonymization process blurring faces and license plates to eliminate personally identifiable information. This is reflected in the dataset, which also includes uniform lidar data and corresponding camera images, and annotations for reference.

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EIA projects nearly 50% increase in world energy usage by 2050, led by growth in Asia

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EIA’s annual long-term assessment of world energy markets includes a Reference case and four core side cases, which use different assumptions for the projections in each case. EIA projects India and China will account for more than half of global output from energy-intensive manufacturing between 2018 and 2050 in the Reference case.

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