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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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E-commerce sales in the United States in 2019 amounted to 11.0% In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. The years examined were 2015 through 2019. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. of all retail sales— the highest percentage yet.

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Union College Partners with EV Connect to Provide EV Charging for Faculty, Staff, and Students

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As electric vehicle adoption soars and students across the country return to in-person learning, Union College, seeks to have their nine new (mid-2019) dual port EV charging stations around campus continue to be utilized by faculty, staff and student EV drivers. It’s a good relationship. I think we’re a kind of forward-thinking institution.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Honda, American Electric Power developing 2nd life applications for used EV batteries

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—Ryan Harty, manager of Connected and Environmental Business, American Honda Motor Co., Honda has set a voluntary goal to reduce CO 2 emissions from its vehicles and operations by 50% by 2050 compared to the year 2000, and toward this goal has announced plans to electrify two-thirds of its fleet by 2030.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa.

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City of Gdynia orders 30 Solaris Trollino trolleybuses with Li-ion battery packs for off-wire driving

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This will support a zero-emission ride of around 15-20 kilometers without connection to traction. Modernization of trolleybuses begins this spring, while the supply of the trolleybuses to Gdynia will begin in September this year and shall be completed by spring 2019. —Katarzyna Gruszecka-Spycha?a, a, deputy Mayor of Gdynia.

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Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

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While previous studies have shown a clear connection of air pollutants with some heart and lung diseases, the new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrates an association between long-term exposure to all major air pollutants with an increase in emphysema seen on lung scans. 2019.10255.

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