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How To Find EV Charging Stations With the EV Connect Driver

EV Connect

While the country as a whole has roughly 37 ports per 100,000 people (half that of the European Union), the bulk of those are in California and Vermont, with much of the rest of the country sitting closer to 10 per person. The Wrong Tool for the Job: The Problem with Google Maps That difference is the best place to start.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Upon further investigation, Maxim realized he had stumbled upon the person who could help him advance his own interests in the nascent field of electric lighting. Alamy In a piece of personal correspondence with Booker T.

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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

Green Car Congress

The new prize was announced in Washington, DC by X PRIZE Chairman Peter H. Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 million prize purse.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Google Guys Th!nk The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. A number of websites ( webpronews.com , pandia.com ) are reporting that Google may be getting more involved with Th!nk

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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway

Baua Electric

As a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent person, I take road trips every year and have learned some tips and tricks along the way. Route planning You can use Google Maps, Waze and MapQuest for initial accessibility research using photos and street view. Sites such as Roadtrippers and Furkot can plot an entire itinerary.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

Cars That Think

One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Only a tiny fraction of sources were on the ground in Washington, D.C., on 6 January. Over the past two years, the U.S. on 6 January.

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