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Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

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is the leading global environmental risk factor for mortality and disease burden, with associated annual global welfare costs of trillions of dollars, However, no one knows what city has the highest level of the pollution. Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author.

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities,” the e-commerce giant said. Finally, deliveries in production models of the Rivian EDV are set to expand to over 100 cities in the U.S.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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The cash incentive for consumers would be available to offset the higher upfront costs of electric cars , in particular the price of the batteries in modern vehicles. The government also wants to find ways to support the ongoing costs of electric cars. "We benefit, broadly, manufacturing in the UK," said Hoon. My Web del.icio.us

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What Is Hyperloop? And What Does It Offer?

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Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Louis, Bratislava-Brno, Vijaywada-Amaravati, and many others. He arrived with the figure of $20 plus operating costs for a one-way ticket on the passenger Hyperloop after spreading the capital cost over 20 years. Is it really a novel idea?

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric. could reduce electric vehicle battery pack cost by 25% or. environment of a lithium-ion battery in real-time. Washington University in St. Louis will develop a predictive. modeling of the battery’s internal environment. Oak Ridge National.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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By creating a pathway to replace expensive elements like platinum for more common metals to serve as catalysts, teams also hope to greatly reduce the cost of the fuel cell parts needed to generate electricity from chemical sources. Washington University in St. The Washington University in St. United Technologies Research Center.

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