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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

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Why electric school buses are needed The best reason to switch from ICE school buses to electric school buses can be summed up in just two words: child wellness. Many school districts use diesel buses for fuel efficiency, but even diesel exhaust was classified as a known carcinogen to humans in 2012.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

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In addition, the city of Torrance will test a plug-in hybrid as a part of the program in 2012. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. DC brushless. DC brushless. In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Atkinson cycle i-VTEC.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. There are tens of thousands of them split between level to the slower charging and DC fast charging.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. There are tens of thousands of them split between level to the slower charging and DC fast charging.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? for 2012 Featured stories Feed Greenlings: What is regenerative braking? Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms."

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