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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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Germany, Denmark and the UK have been able to maintain moderate levels of street connectivity due to pedestrian and bicycle pathways, offering greater connectivity to non-motorized travel. Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball (2019) “A global assessment of street-network sprawl” PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223078.

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Europe December 2020

EV Sales

of 2019 (2.2% 2 Tesla Model 3 - The 2019 Best Selling EV in Europe delivered a record 24,664 units, which in normal times would grant it the Best Seller honour. A reference also to the Nissan Leaf, that jumped to #7, which was still insufficient to reach the 4th spot it had in 2019. Not Bad for a Year Zero.

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European power-to-methane company Electrochaea opens California subsidiary

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Over the past six years, Electrochaea has successfully developed renewable methane from the lab to industrial-scale pilot plants in Denmark and Switzerland, feeding the national gas grids. In 2019 the company opened a third pilot plant at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with support from SoCalGas.

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China EV 100 Forum: NIO's William Li's full speech

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Even in 2019 when the company was about to close, we did not close the office in Europe, we did not close the office in Silicon Valley. NIO has been granted more than 6,000 patents covering the entire full stack of smart electric vehicle technologies. However, the money lost on R&D, I think it is an investment.

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