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UWaterloo: ridesharing links could boost transit use in the suburbs; gaming the system

Green Car Congress

Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighborhoods could be an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership, according to the findings of a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo. The challenge now is designing an integrated system to make it work as well as possible.

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Down the road with EV News

Electric Auto Association

Sony-Honda Content cars The new jointly-developed electric vehicle (EV) will be built around music, movies, and PlayStations. Wink Motors Neighborhood EV (NEV). Wink Motors Tiny cars Small, low-cost EVs are on the horizon. EV costs Cheap cars It won’t be long before high cost will no longer be a valid reason for avoiding EVs.

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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

Baua Electric

Got some kids you need to shuttle down the neighborhood to a friend’s house? With your own electric rickshaw, you can become the open-air, eco-friendly neighborhood cab driver you’ve always dreamed of! My favorite part of this vehicle is just how cheap it is – a mere $592! Throw ’em in! Have some grocery shopping to do?

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

What if, instead of self-driving cars, digital assistants whispering in our ears, and virtual-reality glasses, we viewed a technologically advanced society as one where everyone had sustainable housing? For decades, our vision of the future has been stuck in a 1960s-era dream of science fiction embodied by The Jetsons and space travel.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We There is nothing special here!” Eronen says, laughing.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The nightmare scenario Darbee has is that on a very hot day, after businesses have been running operations, lights and air conditioning all day, people go home, turn the AC on or up, and plug their car in. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. Earlier post.).

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