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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

Cars That Think

2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Identifying cars as legal for travel in high-occupancy vehicle lanes. Update 14 Oct. His list of possibilities includes: Paying for tolls and parking.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. The announcement, which follows Google's request for proposals from companies with electric car technologies, came Tuesday during the Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose, Calif. makes street-legal three-wheelers with a unique, aerodynamic design.

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Hexagon Purus to acquire 40% stake in Cryoshelter’s liquid hydrogen storage business

Green Car Congress

The transaction contemplates a split of Cryoshelter into separate legal entities for the liquid hydrogen and liquid natural (renewable) gas businesses, enabling Hexagon Purus’ direct investment in early-stage liquid hydrogen tank technology. Key terms and structure of the transaction: Initial investment of €3.5

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Scania finds driving with two full length trailers cuts fuel consumption by 30%

Green Car Congress

The Transport Laboratory has already been able to demonstrate a halving of CO2 emissions per tonne-kilometer from 2008 to 2012, due to skilled drivers, optimized vehicles and lower average speed. Another step is now being taken to show how heavy vehicles can reduce climate emissions to 20 grams per tonne-kilometer.

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Who’s at Fault if Your Self-Driving Tesla Crashes?

Clean Fleet Report

Tesla released the Roadster, a 100% electric vehicle, in 2008. The next step would be to take photos of your damaged Tesla for insurance and legal purposes. No street-legal vehicles have reached Level 3 autonomy. What Do You Do If Autopilot Fails. What to Do if Your Tesla Crashes.

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Elon Musk, Twitter reach agreement for sale of social media platform

Teslarati

with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP serving as legal counsel. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is serving as legal counsel, the release said. Morgan, and Allen & Co., Morgan Stanley acted as lead financial advisor to Musk.

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Honda Civic Hybrid Gas-Mileage Class-Action Settled

Green Car Reports

Over the past few years, we’ve been following with interest the ongoing legal battle between Honda and owners of its 2003-2008 Civic Hybrid. That Honda sold the Civic Hybrid on the basis of a claimed 50 mpg gas mileage that no-one could achieve. Now a proposed Californian class-action settlement between Honda and Civic hybrid.