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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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FedEx Converts 92 Delivery Trucks to Hybrids, Expanding Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50%

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The 92 retrofitted hybrid vehicles will be placed into service in California, primarily in the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco metropolitan areas. FedEx and our suppliers have demonstrated that converted hybrids are a viable, lower-cost option compared to purchasing new hybrids.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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DARPA ] Tech Panel: In 2004, DARPA launched interest in self-driving vehicles with a Grand Challenge. Today, we have a fully driverless taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix. Back then, none of the vehicles could even finish the course. But while rapid progress has been made, fully automated vehicles aren’t yet the norm.

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Norwegian Investors Rally to Revived Think Electric Car

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Ford ultimately followed the lead of the other automakers, and began to destroy the cars in 2004. Nothing would please me more than seeing the Think City again on San Francisco streets. The little car demonstrated to me that electric vehicles were ready for prime time. Waiting lists were forming there. When California Th!nk

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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He was vice president of operations and planning for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and served as general chair of the 2011 Sections Congress in San Francisco. He also was chair of the IEEE New Initiatives and Public Visibility committees.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. The next year he chaired the 2004 European Magnetic Sensors and Actuators Conference. There he conducted research on ICs for communications and saw the potential of metal-oxide semiconductors.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Prior to working for Google, many of the engineers were veterans of the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge that featured vehicles executing a route across an off road area. In 2009, Levandowski used an autonomous vehicle to deliver a pizza through the streets of San Francisco. —Anthony Levandowski.

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