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New York City Council passes bill mandating all city school buses be electric by 2035

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The New York City Council passed a bill mandating that the city’s school bus fleet be fully electric by 1 September 2035. Of the 960 currently managed by the City, 885 would still be need to be converted from diesel to electric as the City had previously committed to converting 75 school buses.

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Mobility services infrastructure company Via closes Series E round; valued at $2.25B

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Via , a company that provides digital infrastructure to power public mobility in cities around the world ( earlier post ), has raised a Series E financing led by EXOR. The financing values the company at $2.25 First launched in New York City in 2013, Via’s technology is now deployed globally, including in Europe as ViaVan.

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Sophia Muirhead Is IEEE’s Next Executive Director

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She is set to start her new job on 1 January, succeeding Stephen Welby. During that time, she improved the company’s standards, finance, and publishing protocols; oversaw the evolution of the organization’s contracting process; and deftly navigated export controls, sanctions, and other compliance regulations.

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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

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Since 2018, Boyea-Robinson has been assembling a coalition—including financial institutions, grassroots community groups, political and policy leaders, and corporate and philanthropic donors—to reprogram the systems of lending to and investing in these businesses. or New York City. Boyea-Robinson pitched both.

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Toyota to establish new North American headquarters in Texas; consolidating from California, Kentucky and New York

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Within the next three years, Toyota’s three separate North American headquarters for manufacturing (Erlanger, KY); sales and marketing (Torrance, CA); and corporate operations (New York, NY) will relocate to a single campus in Plano. Toyota will also continue to maintain offices in the New York City area and Washington, DC.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Then we turned our minds to making a "strategic partnership" with a large corporation instead. But we almost closed a joint deal with two vast corporations, General Motors and Philips. GM saw our technology as a way to replace their expensive clay-modeling technique for new-car designs. Ross Perot. Pixar Image Computer.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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Public transit buses are also steadily electrifying, led by California, New York City and the Washington, DC area as well as cities like Pittsburgh and Phoenix. An indicative survey by the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance of its 24 members, who operate more than 1.3 million fleet vehicles in the U.S.