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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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Envisioned as a “living laboratory,” the Woven City will serve as a home to full-time residents and researchers who will be able to test and to develop technologies such as autonomy, robotics, personal mobility, smart homes and artificial intelligence in a real-world environment. —Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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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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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). Ab initio materials, design, performance, and manufacturing can initially be handled with petascale (1 x 10 15 op/s) computation, Weigand suggests.

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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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Net proceeds from sustainable financing will be invested and expended in four areas: Clean Transportation – Designing, developing and manufacturing zero-emissions transportation, focusing on battery-electric vehicles and the batteries that power them across the full range of design, development, manufacturing and end-of-life.

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Toyota to collaborate in research for the creation of H2-based society in the United Arab Emirates

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Toyota Motor Corporation has agreed to collaborate with Masdar, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Air Liquide, and Toyota distributor Al-Futtaim Motors in a joint research program to explore the potential of hydrogen energy use in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the creation of a sustainable, low-carbon society.

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SF Residents Disable Autonomous Vehicles With Traffic Cones

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This is being done under the auspices of solving crimes and has locals feeling a little nervous about their privacy as their neighborhoods are turned into a corporate-funded surveillance state. But reports have cited a growing sense of unease among local residents and select city agencies.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities.

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