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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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The final SuperTruck demonstrator ran a five-day, 312-mile (502-kilometer) roundtrip route on Texas Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Dallas, at a weight of 65,000 lbs (29,484 kg) GVWR at a speed of 65 mph (105 km/h), where it achieved an average result of 12.2 engine brake thermal efficiency. mpg (19.26

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach.

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Study links air pollution to increased emergency department visits for heart and lung disease

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cities including Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Dallas, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; St. While most past studies were conducted on a single-city level, this study looked at pollution across five cities: Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and St. We estimated associations between twelve ambient air pollutants of both primary (e.g.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Different types of non-ownership alternatives promise to be the way of the future. Ford purchased Spin, a dockless scooter-sharing company in 2018 and has been working at growing it in U.S. We recently took a look at a brand-new local iteration run by the local auto club, but using software developed and being used by many others.

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