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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

Green Car Congress

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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First drive in the 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70: A beauty of an EV… just not for long trips

Baua Electric

I had a long drive from Chicago to Des Moines planned and thought, “why not test out an EV while I’m doing it?” This past weekend, I got my first official taste of the Genesis brand by taking the GV70 EV 333+ miles from Chicago to Des Moines and back. That’s a travel time of about five hours and fifteen minutes… or so I thought.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

Cars That Think

That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Its battery recharges in an hour, the company says. On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg.

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New Approach to Release Hydrogen from Ammonia Borane Promising for Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications

Green Car Congress

The paper was written by former Purdue doctoral student Moiz Diwan, now a senior research engineer at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago; Purdue postdoctoral researcher Hyun Tae Hwang; doctoral student Ahmad Al-Kukhun; and Arvind Varma, R. The material-based H 2 yield (~14.3 Diwan et al.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition. economy."

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. Sorry for any confusion. More on Electric Cars: It’s On!

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials. But one person who understands this better than anyone else is Felix Kramer of CalCars.org He’s been doing phenomenal work on the plug-in hybrid front for a long time no w. The rate of $0.32

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