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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

Creative Greenius

Manny and Leviton got their failed unit retuned by UPS on October 17, 2019. It worked fine for six years, first in charging the electric Rav4 and then starting in 2017 our two new electric Chevy Bolts. To: Joe Galliani <joegalliani@mac.com> Subject: RE: Form submission: EVB40 #ST12E4 not working. Joe Galliani.

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My Tour Operator Is a B Corp. What Does That Mean? Should I Care?

Baua Electric

When it comes to travel, she also values environmentally and socially responsible companies, which led her to choose Intrepid Travel , a certified B Corp company, for a tour in Morocco in 2019. The tour operator Run the Alps used to offset the flight emissions for travelers coming to its tours, but the company is re-evaluating the practice.

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California Air Resources Board readopts Low Carbon Fuel Standard, adopts regulation on alternative diesel fuels

Green Car Congress

The Air Resources Board re-adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ), which requires a 10% reduction by 2020 in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. The decline in the LCFS carbon intensity targets was frozen due to a legal challenge. Improving the process for earning LCFS credits by charging electric vehicles.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. They’re Coming Soon Than Predicted. [Ed.

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US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the US, amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. 14, 2022, citing mining as the biggest threat to its survival.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S. The courts have yet to decide.

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Ford unveils new Focus; 10% better fuel economy; focus on tech; gasoline and diesel

Green Car Congress

The all-new Focus goes on sale in Europe and China this year and North America in 2019. The technology can disengage or re-engage one cylinder in 14 milliseconds. Powertrains are supported by standard Auto Start-Stop for reduced running costs and a six-speed manual and a new eight-speed automatic transmission. The all-new 1.5-liter