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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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TNCs are on-demand ride services where rides are arranged through a mobile app to connect the passenger with a driver, often a private individual driving their personal vehicle. They have been referred to by several names, including ridesourcing, ride-hailing, and e-hail.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant. 39% assumed charging station refers to the site/location and 43.2%

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

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Every person we spoke with wanted to talk—to vent, even—and to share conversations they’d had and anecdotes they’d heard from others in the business. Fury at Electrify America It’s hard to overstate the disgust and anger at Electrify America among virtually every person we interviewed. Power and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Charging Station Reliability is Crucial as EVs Gain Speed

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The only question now is, how quickly can we pave the way for this to become the dominant form of personal transportation? EV Connect partners with trusted industry leaders like BTC Power, EVBox and EVOCharge to offer top-of-the-line equipment to our customers. References: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. Cars will drive themselves and connect with others. billion by 2025.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. The Iroha team details the BChain connection in its development documents.

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Google focusing autonomous driving development on mastering city street driving; patents piling up

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Since its last pubic update in 2012, Google said that it has logged thousands of miles on the streets of Mountain View, California, Google’s home. Zone driving A roadgraph may include a graph network of information such as roads, lanes, intersections, and the connections between these features.

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