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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Today the Massachusetts company is the largest telematics service provider in the world. Insurance companies, car manufacturers, rideshare services, and public agencies use CMT data to assess driver behavior, encourage safer driving, dispatch roadside assistance, and more. He is also a CMT cofounder and the company’s CEO.

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THINK Partners with MOBIVA Groupe in France; Largest Distribution and Service Deal Yet

Green Car Congress

THINK’s partnership with O2City is the biggest distribution and service offering for the company yet, with access to potentially more than 800 sales and service facilities throughout France. Tags: Brief.

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Insight the top hybrid performer

Green Cars News

During its first month of sales, the Honda Insight has outsold its competitors in the hybrid market. Since going on sale in the UK, 229 Insight models have been sold ahead of its nearest rival the Toyota Prius at 198 units. Honda hopes to sell around 7,000 Insight models in the UK this year with a global sales target of 200,000 units.

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A Brief Look at Today's Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and the Companies That Are Revolutionizing an Old Industry - Yahoo! Finance

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A Brief Look at Todays Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and the Companies That Are Revolutionizing an Old Industry Plug-in Hybrids: Vehicles of Tomorrow Monday April 20, 2009, 4:00 pm EDT Buzz up! Markets close in 5 hours and 43 minutes. Press Release Source: Floyd Associates, Inc. Digg Buzz up!

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Vauxhall Astra 5-Door Hatch 1.7 ecoFLEX Design road test

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The substantially bigger, sixth-generation Astra is due to go on sale in late 2009, but for the time being you might wish to barter for a current, super-economical turbodiesel ecoFLEX version…. Tags: Road Tests Vauxhall 1.7 Astras have been part of the UK’s furniture now since 1980, with this fifth-generation model launched in 2004.

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Scrap your car for free bus travel

Green Cars News

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The costs are often overlooked until it’s time to tax MOT or insure the car. The year’s free bus is worth around £720.

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Promising EV Trends to Lookout For in 2023

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In the year 2022 overall sales of EVs in the United States reached 5.6% million battery electric cars (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), sales of EVs increased by 55% above 2021 levels, bringing the total number of EVs worldwide to 20 million. and the year is considered to be a tipping point for EVs by Many.

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