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Volvo Cars, Starbucks begin installing ChargePoint EV fast chargers at stores between Denver and Seattle

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It will mark the start of a pilot plan announced last March to electrify a major thoroughfare that opens electric vehicle travel between four critical markets including Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake City and Denver. The full list of communities that will have EV chargers at Starbucks store locations along the route includes: Seattle, WA.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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Following a successful pilot program, BMW Group has launched ReachNow, a free-floating premium car sharing service, in Seattle. The initial fleet of 370 vehicles, including the BMW i3, the BMW 3 Series and the MINI Cooper, will be located on the streets of Seattle for immediate use. Vehicles on-hand at the airport.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., He worked at Microsoft for three years before joining Google.

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Volvo teams with Starbucks to install EV charging network at U.S. locations

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The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. Volvo Recharge models with Google embedded can use the ChargePoint app to locate and access the Starbucks-located charging stations along the route.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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Large, coastal cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, DC saw demand fall further than cities in the Midwest and South. Cities that showed higher levels of Google searches for the word “coronavirus” early in the pandemic showed greater drops in transit use, suggesting more people in those cities were worried about COVID-19.

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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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However, creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Then, they gathered the corresponding satellite images from a Google Maps dataset.

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Ford aggregate driver data show its PHEV owners operate in electric mode nearly 60% of the time

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MyFord Mobile is available on Ford’s plug-in (PHEV) and battery-electric (BEV) vehicles, Fusion Energi, C-MAX Energi and Focus Electric, and is available for download both through the App Store and Google Play. About 180,000 charge stations are located daily through MyFord Mobile. Noon to 2 p.m.

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