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EV ride-hailer BluSmart seeks USD 300 mn to expand car fleet – ET Auto

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Cheap rides, cheap quality, cheap service and cheap pricing are not our forte.” Road transport is estimated to account for as much as 30% of the air pollution that can shroud India’s biggest urban centers, according to the International Energy Agency, causing dangerous long-term health impacts and even premature deaths.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. This article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “Cozy Futurism.".

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How E-Rickshaws Are Bringing The Electric Revolution To India

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At the same time being the solution for the urban mobility solutions, autorickshaws contributes significantly to polluting our cities. In this article, we are going to discuss the impact of E-Rickshaws in the electric vehicle industry in India and how E-rickshaws are bringing the electric revolution to India.

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Univ. Houston, Caltech team develops new earth-abundant, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting

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In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-Jun 2023 – Subscribe now.

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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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In the last article we discussed ‘How to win the EV race’ as a company and today we are going to look at ‘How a Country can win the Electrification Race ‘ and get the most out of It. These clean, renewable energy sources have no pollutants and provide a clean power supply for our electric cars.

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