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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

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The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. The report highlights the importance of near-term action to ensure the long-term sustainability of personal mobility. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We created a similarly human-based scheme that we hope will also inspire ambitious future applications. These messages could include references to images found on public websites. In our tests, the describers used text-based messaging and, crucially, could include links to any publicly available image on the internet.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. GRE is not required and financial aid is available. The Future of Assistive Technology. So, what does the future have in store for AT? They're all assistive technologies.

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New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

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Our tool provides a simple method to integrate disparate climate and population data sources and develop preliminary per capita water availability projections at a global scale. Although just a first step, the toolkit, which has been made freely available, may be further developed for more involved analysis.

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EV startup Karma to debut GT-UV concept in Monterey

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The concept is referred to as the GT UV Design Study, though that isn’t its actual name. Karma Gyesera Karma is the company born out of the remains of the original Fisker Automotive that went bankrupt in 2013, and its first and sole model currently available is the Revero , a heavily updated version of the Fisker Karma.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Data and an interactive mapping tool are available at congestion.sfcta.org. TNCs are on-demand ride services where rides are arranged through a mobile app to connect the passenger with a driver, often a private individual driving their personal vehicle. Data and an interactive mapping tool are available at tncstoday.sfcta.org.