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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

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The team equipped two Google Street View vehicles with the fast-response Aclima Ei measurement and data acquisition platform and repeatedly sampled every street in a 30-km 2 area of Oakland, CA, over the course of a year, developing the largest urban air quality data set of its type. —Apte et al. Kirchstetter, Melissa M.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

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The trucks will be tested in various locations, including Google in the Bay Area, the City of Santa Monica and the Port of Los Angeles. New Leaf, located in San Diego, collects used cooking oil from more than 1,500 restaurants and industrial kitchens and converts it into biodiesel. Electricore Inc., million to 5 million gallons a year.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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We do that both municipalities and the federal and state governments, but also for corporations like Google, Johnson and Johnson and many others. Most famously, the City of Oakland used the EV ARCs that they had deployed at their offices during the height of COVID. So that’s fleet. Then the next use case is workplace charging.

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