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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly. But this is but a singular component.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Pong kick-started a global video-game industry that is now worth upwards of US $300 billion. In 2015, the Strong National Museum of Play , in Rochester, N.Y., Connected to the novelty factor is that. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Why should we care? Sociability.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

According to Navigant Research, global revenue generated by ride-hailing services is expected to grow to almost $1.2 Uber’s also in the process of adding transit connection information to its app as it strives to become a one-stop mobility information service. trillion in 2026.” ReachNow–Another Cautionary Tale?

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. Stockholm is one of the few cities globally where VMT has declined. Earlier post.)]. 8.6 / 10.6.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

roads by 2015? The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Paulson, Coda’s founder Miles Rubin has attracted investments from other well-connected individuals, including Thomas “Mack&# McLarty, former chief of staff for President Clinton. Five million.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. That is globally 0.7