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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. When Croove is first launched, it will be possible to either collect the vehicle in person or pay extra for a pickup and delivery service. Croove is a smartphone-based platform.

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Fiat, MINI and smart Beat 130 gCO2/km New Car Average in Europe for First Half of 2009

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Other applications such as eco:Drive—our innovative software program—allows drivers to analyse personal driving styles so as to optimize consumption and emissions. Sixty thousand people have downloaded it in less than a year since its launch, and 25,000 are using it daily. g/km versus the same period in 2008.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. It’s also a triumph of engineering. We love that.”.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? EV Driver Profile: the Pauls Newsletter Vol. 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member? Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Another cut at US electric vehicle range requirements and usage patterns; fully-charged LEAF could handle 83-95% of all driving days

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The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) includes data from 150,147 households gathered between March 2008 and May 2009 on four levels: household, person, vehicle and travel day. The dataset was downloaded from the NHTS website and imported into SPSS 18 for analysis.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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I downloaded a MediaWiki instance, which is the same type of software that runs Wikipedia, installed it on a Linux computer under my desk, turned it on, and within a year we had, you know, we went from about zero to 20,000 users of the system. Chris Bouton: Yeah, that's going back a ways now. Pfizerpedia was a really fun project to work on.