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Forth and Mobility Development partner to launch national EV carsharing program; affordable model for underserved communities

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The first states included in the program are: Oregon, Washington State, North Carolina, Missouri and Michigan. —Jeff Allen, Executive Director of Forth. This partnership allows us to create meaningful impact on a national scale.

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GM’s Maven and Uber to pilot flexible car-sharing offer

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Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, and Uber Technologies, Inc., Insurance coverage is included in the cost of every lease for a weekly price of $179 plus taxes and fees. There are no additional fees if a driver utilizes the vehicle for personal use. Maven recently expanded its Maven City car sharing to Los Angeles.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. 1,576,345.

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Twitter finally agrees to comply with Elon Musk’s demands over bot data: report

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It could, however, affect the cost of the buyout deal, as hinted at by Musk when he honed in on Twitter’s claims that less than 5% of its users were bots. . ” The firehose is a stream of data comprising over 500 million tweets posted every day, according to a person familiar with the social media platform’s plans. .

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Your Guide to Electric-Vehicle Charging-Station Tax Credits

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Tax credits for installing EV charging stations are available in a variety of forms, and many of them apply toward the cost of equipment and installation. Some type of incentive program is available in 44 states and Washington, D.C. , Washington state offers tax credits for up to 50% of the costs of equipment and related costs.

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Backcountry Skiing Is Booming in the Northeast. But Can It Survive?

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Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. Up on Mount Washington, where the higher elevations usually mean colder temperatures, what had been soft, wet snow had hardened into ice when the temperature dropped in the late morning.

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Researchers devise method to produce jet-range hydrocarbons as co-product of production of algal biodiesel; role of alkenones

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Researchers from Western Washington University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed a method to produce jet-fuel range hydrocarbons as a co-product of the production of algal biodiesel from the biomass of the industrially grown marine microalgae Isochrysis. However, a key obstacle is the cost of the Isochrysis biomass.