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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 However, Gurney expects the Los Angeles mapping to have the most significant implications, especially considering the sheer size and scope of the area. million people. Patarasuk, R.,

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Hyundai Motor Group launches new mobility service venture in LA: MoceanLab

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MoceanLab will provide mobility services in the City of Los Angeles, and expand its services to autonomous ridesharing, shuttling, multimodal transportation, and personal mobility. After a comprehensive thorough review, Hyundai Motor Group identified Los Angeles as the city to launch the MoceanLab.

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CARB designing Sustainable Transportation Equity Project

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is designing the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project Program, and will hold its second program design workgroup in Los Angeles later this month. The Low Carbon Transportation program is part of California Climate Investments.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

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Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. The first Bolt displayed at the annual National Drive Electric Event in 2016 in Los Angeles. Let me tell you about it.

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Tesla Cybertruck’s original build flexed by Petersen Auto Museum in new promo video

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The original Tesla Cybertruck build unveiled in Hawthorne, California in November 2019 has been at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as a part of the ‘Inside Tesla’ exhibit, and is now being flexed in a new promotional video ahead of the pickup’s initial production.

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Porsche Cars NA providing three years of charging at Electrify America stations for Taycam

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And Porsche home charging technology will turn the customer’s garage into the equivalent of a personal gas station. The company’s second phase of charger installations is expected to deploy hundreds of additional charging sites beginning July 2019. —Klaus Zellmer, President and CEO of PCNA.

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