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Light-truck sales declined less during the current pandemic than car sales

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The raw data were annualized, seasonally adjusted sale values, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. The results are shown in the table below. in February to 78.3%

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HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and Dr. Michael Brauer at The University of British Columbia in Canada, provide a first comprehensive global analysis estimating major sources of air pollution for every country in the world.

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Relationship between driving and GDP during the pandemic

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The sources of the raw data were the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis , respectively. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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WUSTL team develops high-power direct borohydride fuel cells; double the voltage of conventional H2 fuel cells

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Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed high-power direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFC) that operate at double the voltage of conventional PEM hydrogen fuel cells. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor and corresponding author. and Raymond H.

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Differential effects of the current pandemic on the sales of light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks

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The raw data for the calculations—annualized, seasonally adjusted vehicle sales—came from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Several of the values were recently updated.)

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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—lead author Veronica Southerland, George Washington University. —Dr Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, co-first author on the NO 2 study and corresponding author of both studies. It was conducted by researchers from George Washington University, the University of British Columbia, Washington University in St.

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DARPA awards WUSTL researcher $860,000 to engineer E. coli to produce gasoline-range molecules

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The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has awarded Dr. Fuzhong Zhang, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Zhang is the first faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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