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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

Portland, Ore., All outdoor activity in my neighborhood ceased for weeks, yet staying indoors didn't guarantee relief. I had the monitor installed, working, and connected to the Airthings app less than 10 minutes after it arrived at my doorstep, in June. Harry Campbell. The summer of 2020 brought wildfire to.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. Lyft claims it is the fastest-growing ride share service and is available in 190 cities worldwide.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?”