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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”. But the reality is that Uber is part of the traffic and pollution problem, adding car trips in our cities and adding to the climate and pollution crisis. Uber’s CEO tells us they ‘do the right thing, period.’

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Four Next-Generation Fuel Cell Buses Introduced in Hartford

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The new buses are part of the Federal Transit Administration’s national Fuel Cell Bus Program. Only the Greater Oakland/San Francisco, Calif., Van Hool of Belgium is one of the world’s largest bus and coach manufacturers. UTC Power is a United Technologies Corp.

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How the EU Chips Act Could Build “Innovation Capacity” in Europe

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Jo De Boeck , chief strategy officer and executive vice president at the Belgium-based nanoelectronics R&D center imec , explained a proposed R&D structure and its likely impact to engineers at the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) last month in San Francisco.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

Cars That Think

Dawn and I used Perplexity as an on-demand travel guide throughout our tour of the Flemish region of Belgium and Northern France. Kahn is being honored for his work on packet communication technologies, which were part of the project that became the ARPANET and the foundations of the Internet. The company’s app rests on GPT-3.5 (the

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally. On the road, Volvo’s first EV is comfortable, quick, and eminently practical, with a large load bay. The company notes that it has the same 57.5

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. For Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and other Northern European countries, contact SP Innovation. Go to Hymotion.com. Green Gears, Inc.

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