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Hertz massively expands Uber EV partnership with 25,000 more vehicles

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Hertz has massively expanded the number of EVs available to Uber drivers in Europe to help both organizations achieve their respective climate goals. This program will begin in London, England, but will quickly expand to Paris, France, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the coming year.

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Revamping an Art Deco Masterpiece

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The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. This beautifully outfitted room is the newly restored Control Room A at the Battersea Power Station in London. James Parsons.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. I haven’t heard any discussion of hydrogen since the Bushadministration was getting ready to leave,” said Dan Becker ,director of the Safe Climate Campaign , a group in Washingtonthat works for environmentally “clean” cars. and Nissan MotorCo.,

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines. To arrest the accelerating pace of a changing climate, the world needs a lot more clean energy to electrify heating, transportation, and industry and to displace fossil-fuel generation. The question is how to scale up the technology to gigawatt scale.

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Manganese Could Be the Secret Behind Truly Mass-Market EVs

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VW’s aggressive strategy to move production of prismatic batteries in-house—the same format built by China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Even that piddling storage and range rapidly degraded, especially in the southwestern United States and other searing climates, leaving customers howling. (It

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. It includes some high-tech touches, including GMs wireless OnStar communications technology that lets a passenger locate other drivers in a city. I couldnt use it for 9 months out of the year.

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