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Researchers Ask: If We Build Walkable Neighborhoods, Will People Walk?

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A team at the University of Alberta (Canada) is studying the factors that influence the decisions made by key stakeholders involved in neighborhood development. There are lingering tensions about what the end results of these neighborhoods might actually be; where the responsibilities lie in terms of public and private sectors.

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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

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The 1 million test miles and more than 26,000 charging events have been accumulated in on-road operations across the United States and Canada. The PHEV testing benchmarks vehicle performance by quantifying energy consumption, both in terms of gasoline and electricity, in a wide variety of operating conditions in 23 states and Canada.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5 www.youtube.com.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. car market.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. car market.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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