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EGEB: UK, Netherlands call on US, China to ban gas cars by 2035

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The UK and Dutch transport secretaries call for China and the US to take more dramatic steps. An abandoned 114-year-old paper mill in New Jersey gets a second life as a solar farm. A large luxury home builder will now include solar on all their new California homes.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. public charging outlets per ZEV, placing it ahead of only New Jersey and Alaska for availability of infrastructure. At the same time, per capita emissions in the state decreased by 12%.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

Green Car Congress

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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The Tailwinds Behind Massive Growth of EV Charging

EV Connect

In January of 2020, the European Union implemented new vehicle emission standards which mandated electric vehicles into automaker model portfolios. China now requires 12% of all units sold by automakers to be EVs, and the percentage is scheduled to increase over time. Already, the U.S. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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