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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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charging infrastructure incentives, preferential charging rates), and public charging availability. Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. The Georgia rebate was revoked in July 2015, and a Texas incentive was limited in its availability throughout the year.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

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Leveraging aggregated INRIX trip data from millions of connected cars, parking availability and restrictions, and US Census demographic data, INRIX created a scalable and customizable scoring system to analyze and visualize priority corridors for HAV deployment. Heat maps for City of Austin (left) and Downtown Austin (right).

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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City of Austin, Austin. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. Greater Portland. University, North. University of Central. . $500,000.

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DOE, BOEMRE and NOAA awarding nearly $5M for projects to advance ocean renewable energy

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The University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) will develop and test standardized protocols for baseline studies and monitoring for the collection and comparison of scientifically valid and comparable data for specific offshore renewable energy issues. Evaluating Acoustic Technologies to Monitor Aquatic Organisms at Renewable Sites.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Portland General Electric. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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But take a look at the variety of program available. She outlines the variety of choices available in a white paper. Lyft claims it is the fastest-growing ride share service and is available in 190 cities worldwide. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. Abstract: In nature, living creatures show versatile behaviors.

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