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Personal: I Built the Ultimate Checklist for a Successful Road Trip

Clean Fleet Report

Personal: I Built the Ultimate Checklist for a Successful Road Trip Gear Up to Hit the Road and Not Look Back This article may contain affiliate links. It prevented us from having to spend money purchasing pricey beverages from gas stations or convenience stores.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times.

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

Cars That Think

This article is sponsored by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The results support a relationship between how people use public transit and e-scooters, which bodes well for them reducing the number of cars in urban environments. The collection of technologies and markets that comprise so-called.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

Number one, it’s a lot better, particularly when you’re working indoors or when you’re working in an urban environment. The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles­—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. Also, it’s a maintenance issue. Garbage trucks.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

As we reported in our exclusive interview with ABC Solar’s Brad Bartz last month, he was battling the City of Torrance on behalf of a homeowner in my very own Hollywood Riviera neighborhood who was being blocked from installing solar by the City. NO PURCHASE! ELECTRIC CARS ARE A CORE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE - NO PLUG?

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

It can do this with little disruption to the way homes and industry purchase and use energy today. has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. One PHEV company, Efficient Drivetrains Inc.,

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. The biggest problem with recharging at home - as already alluded to in the article, is that electric cars are mostly marketed as city vehicles.