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VW-owned Navistar begins autonomous trucking pilot

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” In 2018, former Navistar CEO Troy Clarke said that the company expected to have more electric trucks on the road than Tesla by 2025 , citing its more than century-long history building semis. Waymo expanding autonomous driving tests to include freeways What are your thoughts?

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Taseko Mines: EPA issues draft permit for Florence Copper Project in Arizona

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Taseko’s wholly owned Florence Copper, an in-situ copper recovery project, is located midway between Phoenix and Tucson near the community of Florence, Arizona. —Stuart McDonald, Taseko’s President and CEO.

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Video Friday: RACER Heavy

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Github ] Generation 7 of ‘Phoenix’ robots include improved human-like range of motion. Design iteration significantly decreases build time. From Humanoids 2018. Paper ] Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. Paper ] via [ JSK Lab ] Thanks, Kento!

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

We need to go all out in building charging infrastructure and developing the workforce required to install and maintain it.” Martinson first became involved with American Resilience Project in 2018, not long after he completed the ASU executive master program. “My The first short film in the series is Workforce Rising. Email Address.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

Baua Electric

The struggle persisted, to start with, till 2018, when AutoNation stated it might idleness the ones enlargement plans. Past the Albuquerque, Austin and Colorado Springs places, AutoNation USA has shops in Phoenix and Avondale, Ariz. He nearest known as for as many as 20 imaginable retail outlets. Louis; Henderson, Nev.; Charlotte, N.C.;

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Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

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The Volkswagen Group has set itself the goal of becoming the world’s leading automaker in environmental terms by 2018. There is to be a 25% improvement in the environmental compatibility of production in the Volkswagen Group by 2018—i.e., Phoenix Solar Inc., We have adopted the most comprehensive approach possible.

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Waymo Jaguar I-Pace Lets Passengers Aboard

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While San Francisco was one of Waymo’s early testing sites, it is lagging behind the Phoenix metropolitan region in terms of autonomous ride-hailing commercialization. Because in 2017, Waymo began providing rides to Phoenix residents and though the company didn’t make considerable money, the program is said to be a success.