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Firestone Race Tires made with guayule rubber make INDYCAR debut; commercial use of guayule rubber in tires by 2030

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Guayule is grown and processed at the company’s R&D facilities in Arizona and made into the Firestone Firehawk alternate race tires at its Akron, Ohio, race tire production facility. Bridgestone aims to commercialize use of guayule rubber in tires by 2030.

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Bridgestone to debut race tire made with natural rubber from guayule

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As part of a broader initiative to accelerate the use of sustainable technologies in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) announced plans to debut Firestone Firehawk race tires made with guayule natural rubber grown and extracted at the company’s guayule R&D facilities in Arizona. Earlier post.).

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UPS invests in autonomous trucking company TuSimple, tests self-driving tractor trailers

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Together, both companies are testing self-driving tractor trailers on a route in Arizona to determine whether the vehicles can improve service and efficiency in the UPS network. This is an extension of the ongoing commercial relationship between UPS and TuSimple in which UPS has purchased transportation services from TuSimple.

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Mesh Wearables Meld Micro Sensors and LoRa Smarts

Cars That Think

As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto commercial design standard. LoRaWAN , the media access control (MAC) protocol that sits atop the LoRa physical layer, was developed and maintained by the LoRa Alliance beginning in 2015.

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U.Ok.’s Tevva Motors merges with Canada’s suffering EV maker ElectraMeccanica

Baua Electric

This is the right time and Tevva is the right partner with which to pivot from consumer vehicles to commercial vehicles,” she mentioned in a shed. ElectraMeccanica was once based in Vancouver in 2015. Docherty, who joined ElectraMeccanica in December 2022, is anticipated to go the blended entity as CEO following the merger.

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UPS updates 125 Workhorse E-GEN series hybrid electric step vans with smaller genset engine for better fuel economy

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The updated trucks, which were originally purchased in September 2015, deliver up to four times the fuel economy of a gasoline-powered vehicle, UPS said. The trucks will be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas later this year. AMP Electric Vehicles went public in 2010. Earlier post.).

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NHTSA Launches Safety Investigation Into GM's Cruise

The Truth About Cars

General Motors’ Cruise may be one of the first companies in the world to field driverless vehicles as part of a commercial endeavor. But that gave way around 2015, leading to numerous Congressional regulatory programs that seemed hell-bent on getting more AVs on public roads (see: A Vision for Safety ).

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