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Bye Aerospace unveils 8-seat all-electric eFlyer 800; Safran supporting propulsion design

Green Car Congress

Safety features include two wing-mounted electric motors, each with dual redundant motor windings, quad-redundant battery packs and a full airplane parachute. Performance estimates for the eFlyer 800 include up to 320 knot cruise speed, 35,000 feet ceiling and 500 nm range with 45-minute IFR reserves at normal cruise speed of 280 knots.

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Green Motorsports: Subaru Hits the Track To Improve the Breed

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Since the launch of the Nitro RallyCross racing series in 2018, Subaru Motorsports USA has been the only auto manufacturer continuously sponsoring a race team. EVs To Be Added for 2022 Series. A preview of Subaru’s EV racer.

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Smokey the AI

Cars That Think

And this was on top of a 2018 fire season that burned more than 700,000 hectares of land in California, and a 2019-to-2020 wildfire season in Australia that torched nearly 18 million hectares. Xcel Energy and Florida Power and Light , are testing AI to detect problems with electrical components on both high- and low-voltage power lines.

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

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AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. The buses will be operated on BCT's express bus routes servicing the Southeast Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Antelope Valley Transit Authority will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses that will replace diesel buses that have exceeded useful life.

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

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Sunbather, Daytona Beach, Florida (1985) by Library of Congress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches. That’s why Florida has no wind farms – either onshore or offshore. Absolutely.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline.

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