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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.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

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Demographic factors such as an overall urban population boom, the increase in urban single-person households and rapidly aging urban populations—the population age 65 and older in New York City, for example, is expected to increase more than 36% by 2030—will lead to significant changes in urban mobility. million to 229 million.

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ToxicTown Torrance to Hold Public Forum on Chemical Threat

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Your friendly neighborhood Greenius wrote seven months ago about the chemical problems the City of Torrance , known throughout the South Bay as ToxicTown (when it isn’t going under its new official designation as a Blighted Community) , but not a single person on the City Council, in City Government or connected with the city in any way cares (..)

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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 joins growing group of electric 3-row crossover SUVs

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The premiere was held at the Goldstein Residence, an early 1960s residence with expansive views set into a hillside in LA’s Beverly Crest neighborhood. The house has been a design icon since it opened, and its use underscored the upscale market targeted by the electric three-row SUV from one of the world’s most ambitious carmakers.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. I wanted a project that the group could share their collective brain power and rally around. Damn the torpedoes. Here we go.

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NAATBatt Coalition recommends deployment of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage systems by 2022

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DES systems consist of small, stationary batteries installed in neighborhoods, buildings, homes and electricity substations, which can be networked together using smart grid communications technology. with DES systems, standardize their design and applications, and demonstrate their. value proposition.

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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

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In 1999 he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a balloon, called Breitling Orbiter 3. Besides being the first person to see the curvature of the Earth, Auguste was the inspiration for the Professor Cuthbert Calculus character in The Adventures of Tintin series of comic novels. Piccard: There are two parts.

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