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Interview with Goodyear CEO Richard Kramer on CES Announcements & When We Can Expect To Have Retreads Widely Available For Cars

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In this article, I cover Goodyear’s announcements from the CES 2024 show and get some answers on why we can’t. continued] The post Interview with Goodyear CEO Richard Kramer on CES Announcements & When We Can Expect To Have Retreads Widely Available For Cars appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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German transportation major FlixBus enters India – ET Auto

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The company promises to transform intercity passenger transportation in the country with convenient traveling at a competitive price and the best-in-class safety standards. Philipp Ackermann , Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to India and Bhutan, said, “The German transportation major Flixbus is coming to India.

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Energy and environmental costs of flying around closed airspaces

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A recent article by Jacopo Prisco has documented the impact that closed airspace over Russia has on a one specific flight—a Finnair nonstop flight from Helsinki to Tokyo (Narita), using an Airbus A350-900. The basic facts from the Prisco’s article are summarized in the table below. Thus, the current route has about 9.2

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

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Recent innovations in autonomous public transport. These kinds of programs seek to do more than economize public transportation. ITF also noted that despite its inefficiencies, single-occupancy cars will dominate in three critical areas: flexibility, comfort and availability. The results were staggering.

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No, Tesla Stations Aren’t Open To All EVs (Yet)

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A recent article at the San Francisco Chronicle leads with (as of this writing) a headline saying, “Tesla superchargers in California now available for all EVs.” ” The paywalled article cites a social media post by Governor Gavin Newsom, but there’s just one problem: the headline is completely false, at least.

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The State of Electric School Bus Adoption in the US

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Editor’s Note: This article was updated in September 2023 with new findings from WRI’s dataset tracking electric school bus adoption in the United States, covering January to June 2023. Previous versions of this article are available for download at […]

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Soundproofing An Older Tesla Model 3

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In my recent article about reaching 100,000 miles in my 2019 Tesla Model 3, I mentioned how I got it acoustic dampened professionally. With so many used Model 3s being available on the market today, I thought it would be appropriate to update the article from February 2021 and run.

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