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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

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An official document confirming the update was published by the State of Brandenburg, outlining the next steps that the electric vehicle maker needs to do to start vehicle production in its Germany-based electric vehicle factory. . “As The wait is finally over.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

Green Car Congress

The BAU scenario assumes future population and land use trends throughout the study region will be consistent with historical change. The core of the study’s approach is a vehicle activity modeling framework for associating future land use and demographic characteristics, under BAU, SG1, and SG2 scenarios, with household vehicle travel.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. Based on the strong response last year, IEEE Future Networks plans to make the challenge an annual program.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts. My goal is to create a Civic EV conversion kit with open-source tools and open-source designs/documentation so that the most people can benefit from it. Here we go.

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ICCT report highlights importance of California ZEV mandate for EV policies worldwide, recommends steps forward

Green Car Congress

Calling the Air Resources Board’s targets for future deployment reasonable, it stresses the need for policymakers to pay particular attention to the “second wave” of consumers. With regard to future deployment targets, for Phase V (2018–2021) ARB staff has proposed a target increasing from 1.5% Task 2: Metrics.

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What to Expect with Charge Ready New York 2.0

EV Connect

By focusing on disadvantaged communities, the program will address the disproportionate impact of vehicle emissions on these neighborhoods. The following documents must be submitted: Building permit Installation quote (at least one) Signed site host agreement, equipment owner agreement, and installer agreement 4. The process 1.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

Buolamwini: I cannot stress the importance of documentation. Then the question becomes is the company willing to release a system with the limitations documented or are they willing to go back and make improvements. That document was a nonbinding set of guidelines for the federal government as it began to think about AI regulations.