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GM’s Maven car-sharing reaches 1M miles driven in <4 months; Boston, Chicago, and DC joining lineup

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and is adding Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. In Chicago, the Maven City car sharing program is now in operation, with pricing starting at $8 an hour including insurance and fuel. Express Drive allows Lyft ride share service drivers in the Chicago area to rent Chevrolet Equinox crossovers for $99 a week. and Chicago.

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Retraining Electricians to Install EV Charging Stations – Verde Energy Efficiency Experts

EV Match

EVmatch and Verde Energy Efficiency Experts are excited to announce a new partnership to deploy more EV charging stations in the Chicago area. EVmatch charging station near Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. Many of our clients in Chicago, especially property managers, have been requesting this technology.

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5 Hotel Pools Perfect for Swimmers

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Then, while planning a trip to Chicago, Ms. In the Intercontinental Hotel, the 25-yard-long pool, built in 1929, is one of the oldest in Chicago and is surrounded by Greek-inspired marble decoration. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling? “Most hotel pools are too tiny or too crowded,” she said.

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Drivers, Fans React Positively to NASCAR in Chicago

The Truth About Cars

NASCAR's first foray into racing on the streets of downtown Chicago was met with criticism from the public and skepticism from the drivers before the race even took place. Take Nick Fornero, 30, from Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. The 30-year-old said he'd "definitely" come to another race in the future.

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No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

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Neighborhood locations, she said, may have better availability. Many major cities will still see a partial eclipse: 94 percent in Chicago, 90 percent in New York, 82 percent in Atlanta and 49 percent in Los Angeles. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling? Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2024.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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The BAU scenario assumes future population and land use trends throughout the study region will be consistent with historical change. The core of the study’s approach is a vehicle activity modeling framework for associating future land use and demographic characteristics, under BAU, SG1, and SG2 scenarios, with household vehicle travel.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Different types of non-ownership alternatives promise to be the way of the future. 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. In the U.S.

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