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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. million people.

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BAE Systems reports more than 3,500 HybriDrive series hybrid systems delivered or ordered worldwide

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Buses equipped with HybriDrive series have travelled more than 300 million miles, prevented more than 280,000 tons of CO 2 emissions and have saved more than 25 million gallons of diesel fuel. Seattle and Houston are taking delivery of HybriDrive-powered buses built by Daimler as will Baltimore City, Md., Atlanta, Ga.

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

Teslarati

The pilot program accumulated over 90,000 miles of real-world testing and resulted in 430,000 package deliveries. by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. .”

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2024 Hyundai Kona Review – Ready For New Challenges?

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Full disclosure: Hyundai flew me to Baltimore, Maryland, and fed and housed me for two nights so that I could drive the new Kona. Hyundai is promising a max range of 260 miles and a fast charge that will take you from 10 percent to 80 percent in 43 minutes. Let the small crossover wars continue. There are two battery packs – a 64.8

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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While maglev trains are in use throughout the world, those systems are primarily high-speed test environment systems where speeds reach in excess of 250 miles per hour. US safety standards are in many instances much more demanding than standards in other countries. Urban maglev should require a maximum speed of about 100 mph.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels.

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GM will focus its electrification strategy on light electrification, extended range, and battery-electric vehicle technologies; major focus on the plug; preview of the Spark EV

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A 120V charge cord set is standard. What we have done, based on those 300 million miles of field experience, is taken a chemistry that is well-vetted in the field and adapted and tailored it in terms of the cell design to the particular application in the Spark. near Baltimore. The Spark EV battery pack. Click to enlarge.