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AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop

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These numbers do not consider cost of living, which generally gives Austin a significant edge, particularly if you want to buy a house). However, Silicon Valley’s tech salaries, already higher than Texas averages, increased their lead slightly, climbing 5 percent to $133,204 compared with Austin’s 4.6 percent to $109,176.

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Airlines Hoping for More Boeing Jets Could Be Waiting Awhile

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a major Boeing production hub north of Seattle. The companies have not been able to buy enough planes or hire enough pilots, flight attendants and other workers they need to operate flights. A surge in the cost of jet fuel after Russia invaded Ukraine also hurt profits. As part of the F.A.A.’s

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. Alabama A&M University. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced. Such a vehicle could reduce gasoline consumption for the average American by 50 percent to 70 percent and reduce automobile emissions well in excess of emissions that might result from the additional use of power plants.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Green Car Congress

The Office of Federal Sustainability is inviting State, county and municipal government fleets to join forces with Federal agencies to maximize their collective buying power, and aggregate their EV and charging infrastructure purchases. City of Seattle. Expanding the EV fleet. The 35 new partners include: Bates College. Con Edison.

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Stretch 3 Brings Us Closer to Realistic Home Robots

Cars That Think

Stretch is much easier to scale, because you can just straight up buy one. Stretch 3 is available now for $24,950 , which is just about the same as the cost of Stretch 2 with the optional add-ons included. You may have noticed that some of the Stretch 3 videos have two robots in them, collaborating with each other.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Vehicle manufacturers do not share that when they’re selling vehicles, so [fleet operators] are buying vehicles and as soon as winter comes around, they’re getting [only] 60 miles out of a vehicle. Or they’re saying you have to buy [up to] two electric buses to replace every diesel bus because of this battery behavior impact.