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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

Canada border outside of Buffalo, New York. I understand that someone who isn’t a car person – and I have no idea of what level of automotive knowledge Kois possesses – might make an unfortunate correlation between the number of gears in a transmission and the amount of power a car’s engine possesses.

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2020 Toyota Yaris Hatchback to debut at New York show; 40 mpg highway

Green Car Congress

Toyota will introduce the all-new 2020 Yaris Hatchback at the New York International Auto Show this month. Another surprise in this class is a Sport Mode, which changes the car’s personality with enhanced acceleration response. The vehicle gets its high appetite for fun and low appetite for fuel from a 1.5-liter

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New York City pushes Uber & Lyft fleets to be zero-emissions by 2030

Teslarati

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Uber and Lyft will be required to have a zero-emissions fleet by 2030 during his State of the City speech on Thursday. Additionally, Adams said that New York City residents should attempt to drive an EV. Similar plans could be utilized in the United States with proper funding.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines.

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Toyota is already offering $10k off a lease for its fully electric 2024 bZ4X

Baua Electric

But CarsDirect reports that the EV is available in the Greater New York area with a lease cash discount. Lease cash is a manufacturer incentive that lowers the cost of a new vehicle when it’s leased. The bZ4X starts at $43,070 for the 2024 model year. As Electrek reported this week, Toyota only sold 1,897 bZ4X models in Q1 2024.

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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Since it’s a “ collective self-consumption ” project, residents are paying €5 ($5.20) to buy in. Cemeteries are often sacred, so solar canopies over them would require buy-in from invested parties, as is the case in Saint-Joaquim. I personally think this project is innovative. A sensible use of space, or a step too far?

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

Cars That Think

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, many research groups sought an effective method to determine mobility patterns and crowd densities on the streets of major cities like New York City to give insight into the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing strategies.