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TomTom: Global traffic congestion up; Bengaluru world’s most traffic-congested city

Green Car Congress

Overall, traffic congestion has increased globally during the last decade, and the 239 cities (57%) TomTom included in the new Traffic Index report had increased congestion levels between 2018 and 2019, with only 63 cities showing measurable decreases. Globally, there’s a long road to travel until congestion levels are brought under control.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

Cars That Think

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Terrestrial solar is now the cheapest electricity , he says, and marine solar could become even more affordable because there’s no need to purchase land.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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Humans are tribal creatures by nature, as concluded in a 2019 study from the Association for Psychological Science. A look at the current political climate in countries such as the United States and the Philippines would show this. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2019. Sustainable/electric cars are the future!!

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