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Geographers provide new insight into commuter megaregions of the US

Green Car Congress

The findings appear in an open-access paper in PLOS One and shed light on an old geographic problem: how to divide space into coherent unit areas. The algorithm relies on the connectivity between nodes and does not take into consideration geographic proximity. A commuter flow-based regionalization of the United States. . …

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid).

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Electric Nation is providing access to clean and affordable transportation for underserved tribal communities

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Specific project goals include: Install 55 direct current fast-charging units on Tribal lands and connect them to main travel routes and other Tribal communities. Deploy EVs in Tribal fleets , including 16 light-duty EVs, an electric shuttle, and two electric school buses.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

With no traffic cops or traffic lights, there often was chaos at major intersections. Things turned around for him in the ninth grade when a new teacher had a particular way of teaching math that “turned the light bulb on in my brain,” he says. “My The IEEE connections helped him get his first job.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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president Grover Cleveland officially opened the extravaganza by pressing a golden telegraph key that symbolically switched on 100,000 incandescent lights. Somehow, in his random connections, Rob accidentally strikes the "master key of electricity," thereby calling forth the Demon of Electricity. On 1 May 1893, U.S.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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As in Palo Alto, it will likely be blown transformers or constantly flickering lights that signal there is an EV charging-load issue. The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems.

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Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

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From a research perspective, it would have been interesting to see if pay rates had any connection to other demographics, like age, race, or gender, but we wanted to assure workers of their anonymity, so they wouldn’t worry about Shipt firing them just because they had participated in the project. and Target’s headquarters in Minneapolis.

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