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Personal: My Ongoing EV Adventure

Clean Fleet Report

2016 Fiat 500e – Fidelio Wanting to be like the pros at the big car magazines, I asked my press contact from Fiat-Chrysler (today part of Stellantis) for a long-term Fiat 500e EV test car. The press man sent me a new 2016 Fiat 500e for three monthsI even got to pick the color. I named the little car Fidelio.

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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

Cars That Think

In 1999 he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a balloon, called Breitling Orbiter 3. Besides being the first person to see the curvature of the Earth, Auguste was the inspiration for the Professor Cuthbert Calculus character in The Adventures of Tintin series of comic novels. Its a plane that is molded.

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Hydrogen Cars Were Supposed to Be the Future. Now Owners Are Suing Toyota

Teslarati

The price of faith in an idea Ricky Yap of West Sacramento bought his 2016 Toyota Mirai in 2020 from Roseville Toyota. That number has since dropped to $15 million, and it’s no longer limited to light-duty stations. We were supposed to have 200 stations up and running for light-duty hydrogen vehicles by 2025,” he said.

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Phuket, Thailand Has a Fine-Dining Scene That Rivals the Beach

Baua Electric

At Pru , founded in 2016, the Dutch chef Jimmy Ophorst cooks dishes like durian and caviar, roasting the notoriously odoriferous Southeast Asian fruit, then turning it into a mousse that he garnishes with local roe. From $465, garrettleight.com.

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FCA, Waymo expand autonomous driving technology partnership; exclusive agreement for light commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

FCA and Waymo have expanded their autonomous driving technology partnership; FCA became Waymo’s first OEM partner in 2016. Waymo will now work exclusively with FCA as its preferred partner for the development and testing of class 1-3 light commercial vehicles for goods movement for commercial delivery customers, including Waymo Via.

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EIA: light duty vehicle energy consumption to drop 25% by 2040; increased oil production, vehicle efficiency reduce US oil and liquid imports

Green Car Congress

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). Personal air travel (billion seat-miles) grows by an average of 0.7% million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) through 2016, when domestic production comes close to the historical high of 9.6 quadrillion Btu in 2012 to 12.1

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Juniper: smart cities to ease traffic congestion, save 4.2B person-hours per year by 2021

Green Car Congress

billion person-hours annually by 2021—equivalent to each city driver saving nearly an entire working day per year. Juniper’s study, Worldwide Smart Cities: Energy, Transport & Lighting 2016-2021 found that traffic easing measures are at the forefront of many smart cities’ efforts.

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