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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure. km 2 ) site at the base of Mt.

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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

Baua Electric

Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. When Milan’s authorities embarked years ago on plans to promote the city as a buzzy destination by building on its reputation as Italy’s hip fashion and design capital, the resulting noise and rowdy overcrowding were perhaps not quite what they had in mind.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. There is nothing special here!”

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DOE announces $187M to support electrification of transportation sector

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In partnership with industry, VTO has established aggressive targets to focus research, demonstration and deployment on costreduction, efficiency, and emissions reduction that improve air quality and improved mobility. Provide transition training to build the clean energy workforce. The selected projects will support the $2.5

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon. photo by Galliani (c). photo by Galliani (c).

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International collaboration develops progressive vision for urban production at the BMW Group; OMA and 3XN

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BMW Group Plant Munich future Vision Urban Production with neighborhood. The entire automotive industry is in the middle of a transformation to electromobility, in which digitalization and circularity also have a key role to play. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, BMW AG Board Member for Production.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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