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Nissan muscles up electric marketing, VW ID testing, Tesla fire: Today's Car News

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A new Chinese electric carmaker plans to sell electric cars in the U.S. A new Tesla Model S unexpectedly caught fire—twice—after getting a flat tire in California. electric hatchbacks testing in South Africa. via the owner of the defunct automaker Coda. And Volkswagen teased a video and images of its new I.D.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

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In 2020, after performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market , where testing took place in EV hotspot California in early September 2020. We compared, for example, how the Chinese OEMs are performing compared to the European ones.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. ” California is currently in its third year of serious drought.

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