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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Let me tell you about it.

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Toyota to collaborate in research for the creation of H2-based society in the United Arab Emirates

Green Car Congress

As part of the program, Toyota will begin driving and refueling demonstration tests of the Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCV) in the UAE from May 2017. The agreement was announced at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), which was held at the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.

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No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

Baua Electric

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun for roughly 4,200 miles stretching from Mexico to Canada — a cosmic show that so much of North America won’t see again for about 20 years. Otherwise, you may spend hours caught in traffic, as many discovered after the 2017 eclipse. Many made their plans to view it well in advance.

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Study links air pollution to heightened risk of Type 2 diabetes in overweight and obese Latino children

Green Car Congress

Researchers examined the data of 314 overweight and obese Latino children who were between 8 and 15 years old when they enrolled in the National Institutes of Health-funded Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (SOLAR) study, a 12-year undertaking. Scientists tracked the Los Angeles County children for an average of 3.5

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

Cars That Think

The InterPlanetary File System gets its name because, in theory, it could be extended to share data even between computers on different planets of the solar system. The world had a chance to observe how content addressing worked in April 2017 when the government of Turkey. Welcome to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

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