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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service provides additional mobility for residents and visitors to this area, which has been without a bus line since 2008. More than 90 percent of the micro-shuttle’s service territory is in a low-income or disadvantaged Sacramento neighborhood. EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Tesla delays Model S Plaid delivery event to June 10, ‘one more week of tweak’ needed

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It was first delivered in 2012 and was the company’s first-ever passenger vehicle, following the first generation Tesla Roadster in 2008. The most recent was in San Francisco when Teslarati reader Blake Marvin spotted a Model S Plaid build on the street in his neighborhood. The Model S is Tesla’s flagship vehicle.

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Clean Energy introduces new CleanCNG compressor

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At 75 dBA @ 3m, low operating noise is a standard feature of the CleanCNG, making it suitable for even residential neighborhood installations. Clean Energy Compression facilities meets all ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System requirements. Ultra-low vibration and noise. Scalable by design.

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Study Finds Elevated Ultrafine Particle Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports

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However, researchers know little about the impact of such emissions at general aviation or regional airports—which are becoming a more important component of the global air transport system, and which tend to be located closer to residential neighborhoods than major airports, the article notes. ” Resources. Winer and Suzanne E.

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Eindhoven University of Technology to make biofuels from its own wood waste; cyclic oxygenate CyclOx and ethanol

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Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. Boot and his colleagues discussed the potential role of cyclic oxygenates in a 2008 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In their 2008 paper, Boot et al. In other words, an economically viable feedstock for X1 is available at any neighborhood gas station. Click to enlarge.

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Worldwatch Institute study expects number of countries running high-speed rail nearly to double by 2014

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A 2006 study, High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US , released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30-70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes. The rise in HSR has been very rapid.

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Study links California regulations, significant declines in cancer risk from exposure to air toxics

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Following the establishment of California’s statewide Truck and Bus Rule in 2008, California began requiring diesel particulate filters on trucks, reducing diesel particulate matter from the exhaust gas of diesel engines. Neighborhoods in freight corridors, including those near ports, will especially benefit.