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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., CNG buses generate Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits, although not as many as electric vehicles do. gge for CNG.

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

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This means the routes to be driven are always specified cartographically and are followed with pinpoint precision thanks to a differential GPS system—accuracy: three centimeters—by the lead vehicle as well as the other convoy vehicles thanks to constant target/actual comparisons.

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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 on-board charging system accommodates single pulse DC 110/220 volt input, and is compliant to SAE J1772 standards.

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AMPLY Power offers EV fleets guaranteed uptime and zero charging challenges

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As commercial fleets electrify, they are finding that they need expert help to design, install and operate their charging infrastructure. During previous tech revolutions, third-party contractors emerged to provide turnkey services to companies for things like data centers and solar installations. I also tell the story of data centers.

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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). Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. A lot of the ideas in Ada [the standard programming language of the U.S.

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