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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities,” the e-commerce giant said. Today marks a significant milestone in our Climate Pledge commitment. Rivian builds its vehicles in Normal, Illinois.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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An industrial automation problem AeroFarms and Nokia discussed how to build a system to monitor a vertical farm where leafy greens including arugula, bok choy, and kale are grown. The Institute interviewed Klein to learn more about the project. A typical facility can produce more than 1 million kilograms of leafy greens annually.

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Charging Station Reliability is Crucial as EVs Gain Speed

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Greenhouse emissions are a major contributor to climate change and rising global temperatures, and gas-powered vehicles are a major source of these emissions. What’s most important here is that you’re building for the future. Build your business’s EV charging network to meet the needs of your workforce in 2031, not 2021.

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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

EV Connect

Even among those who support urgent action to fight climate change, there are some who raise questions about the trade-offs that electric vehicles present. To curb these emissions even further, we need to build more power plants and facilities that create and use renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.

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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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Resulting improved strains of maize may, for example, produce larger yields, show resistance to disease, offer efficiencies in nitrogen use that would enable farmers to reduce applications of costly, polluting fertilizers, and tolerate changes in rainfall or temperature accompanying climate change.

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Bringing Back Clean Air

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Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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