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NREL report on electric bus demo at Foothill Transit finds Proterra fuel economy >8x higher than CNG on same line

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However, because Foothill Transit operates its BEB and CNG bus fleets differently, the efficiency results presented are not an apples-to-apples comparison. An apples-to-apples comparison of fuel cost—i.e., Foothill Transit installed two charger heads at its charging station to avoid downtime for charger unavailability.

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Daimler demos self-driving snow removal trucks; premiere of Remote Truck Interface

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Following its successful demonstration of the Highway Pilot and Highway Pilot Connect systems ( earlier post )—the latter making truck platooning possible—Daimler has demonstrated automated snow removal operations on the site of the former Pferdsfeld airbase. Premiere for the Remote Truck Interface (RTI).

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

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I may add ,there is no comparison of “biking be it simple bike or ebiking” to eScooter ,I would prefer biking any day over eScooter any day. Installed it early hours of Monday first time it didn’t went through later left it for a while ,checked it after 25 min it was done. It was sedate-slow, update.

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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

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The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. The compact Li-ion battery pack is installed under the rear luggage area. L/100km equivalent and 4.8 L/100km, respectively.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. and Toronto, Ont., Local area network. Object-oriented programming.

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