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Plug In America joins global alliance

Plug in America

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We can already see the EV growth; more than 3.24

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

Cars That Think

RoboCup is an annual international competitive event that merges visionary thinking about how AI and robotics will change the world with practical robot design. www.youtube.com The first RoboCup, which I attended as a student, was held in 1997 in a small exhibit room at the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) in Nagoya, Japan.

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US study of miners links heavy exposure to diesel exhaust to increased risk of lung cancer death; researchers suggest implications for urban areas with high exhaust concentrations

Green Car Congress

µg/m 3 ), and Estarreja, Portugal (11.8 Because such workers had at least a 50% increased lung cancer risk, our results suggest that the high air concentrations of elemental carbon reported in some urban areas may confer increased risk of lung cancer. µg/m 3 ), the Bronx (6.6 µg/m 3 ), nine urban sites in China (8.3

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. Walkout at UN conference after Iran. They are placing all their bets on pureelectric vehicles that produce zero emissions at the point of use.