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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly. But this is but a singular component.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. Perfect for a first-mile-last-mile connection, the user either pays for rental time or distance traveled, whichever is less expensive. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

Green Car Congress

The high-voltage system is designed to cope with accidents beyond the legal requirements, with the high-voltage battery including features that ensure its safe reaction even in situations such as this. This includes BMW Connected Drive and the 360° ELECTRIC services, some of which are options. kilograms (3.3

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. And we’re like, “Yeah, that’s the point.”