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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. Different forms of gated communities were also found to be on the rise globally.

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. In the first five months of the year, GM sold 394,000 vehicles in South America and its market share was 20.2%.

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GM leads $50M funding round in EnergyX; advanced lithium extraction and refining technology

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The EnergyX team of scientists and engineers have worked relentlessly for five years developing cutting-edge DLE technology to solve the immense bottlenecks that have limited global lithium production and supply chain. his single bottleneck (a massive lithium shortage) is the biggest challenge to scaling EV production.

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Volkswagen ID.4 GTX with LGES batteries sets Guinness World Record for EVs

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LG Energy Solutions’ global communications team informed Teslarati that Rainer Zietlow set a new Guinness World Record with a Volkswagen ID.4 In 2021, Zietlow won the title for the longest continuous journey with an electric vehicle in a single country. VW’s electric vehicles are powered by LG Energy Solution (LGES). .

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