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GM Maven introduces monthly offering for members; vehicles include the Chevrolet Tahoe and Chevrolet Volt

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Members can access popular GM vehicles for an extended time period without the commitment of leasing, financing or buying. Since launching in October 2016, Maven City car sharing in Los Angeles has experienced an average monthly member growth of 56%. In 13 months, Maven has launched three products and has grown to 17 cities in the U.S.

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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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California conducted a similar review in 2016 for vehicle standards through the 2025 model year and found the standards achievable, cost-effective and appropriate. Businesses that buy zero-emission vehicles are also now eligible for a tax benefit estimated to be worth around $13,000 in the year they purchase the vehicles.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. They asked company cofounder Nikola Marincic to turn the slurries into cylindrical cells, like the kind someone might buy for a flashlight. Whittingham’s battery was unlike anything that had preceded it.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority will receive funding to execute a second phase of its electric bus program to install charging infrastructure (on-route & charging bank for depot chargers) and buy electric buses. The new buses will be used on routes that connect residents to employment opportunities. New Jersey Transit.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016. People are buying more and more electric cars,” says Eerenberg, the alderman. Their research partnership ran for four years. The city will soon need many more.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

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We know that in California, they have a pretty strong incentive program to try to help companies pay some of the upfront costs, and she told me that there’s a bill on the table in New Jersey to do something like that. They can actually go and buy equipment from multiple vendors, put it together and it works.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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