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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Finally, the pleasant surprise at the end of my lease was something I wasn’t expecting—my Volt was worth substantially more than the buy-out.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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Greenius Shredding & Recycling Dream Come True!

Creative Greenius

Your friendly neighborhood Greenius is a fastidious filer and I have every financial record and work related project file archived going back to 1979 – which amounted to storage box after storage box jammed full of papers in files filling my attic and garage. . Another huge thrill for your Greenius.

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Greenius Shredding & Recycling Dream Come True!

Creative Greenius

Your friendly neighborhood Greenius is a fastidious filer and I have every financial record and work related project file archived going back to 1979 – which amounted to storage box after storage box jammed full of papers in files filling my attic and garage. . Another huge thrill for your Greenius.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. Longer Term Green House Gas emissions reductions. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. by Bill Cooke.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. But during this same past year, I’ve also been attending the meetings of the South Bay Cities Green Task Force.

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