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Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air

Baua Electric

A 2022 report found that the city was falling short of the World Health Organization’s minimum standard of nine square meters (about 97 square feet) of green space per person in urban areas. The government designated the tobacco factory site as parkland in the early 1990s, and the first section of Benjakitti opened soon after that.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

Green Car Congress

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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Ford develops and begins manufacturing new powered respirator; expanding other COVID-19 efforts

Green Car Congress

Ford, with design and testing consultation from 3M, has developed a new powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). Ford will start producing an all-new PAPR design to help protect health care professionals on the front lines fighting COVID-19. Production of this PAPR starts today at Ford’s Vreeland facility near Flat Rock, Mich.,

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

Cars That Think

Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.” Corecipients: SAGAWA MASATO Advanced Magnetic Materials Korat, Thailand JOHN J. IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs P. CROAT John Croat Consulting, Inc. Naples, Fla. IEEE JAMES H.

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Micromobility: Zapp Scooters Bring Style, Range and Fun to Urban Riding

Clean Fleet Report

Built in Thailand, the i300 is part of a worldwide wave of transportation options that are moving from fossil-fuel power to electric. And with COVID-19 concerns driving some commuters to avoid public transit , personal two-wheelers should experience a boom in the next few years. It’s Got the Looks. feet long and weighs 202 pounds.

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Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

Green Car Congress

The Mercedes-Benz pickup will share some of the architecture with the all-new Nissan NP300 but it will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers. The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers.

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Honda President Ito steps down, Takahiro Hachigo to replace him

Green Car Congress

Hachigo joined Honda in 1982, and began his career in its automobile research and development operations, principally as an engineer in the area of chassis design. Ito joined Honda in 1978 and began his career in the company’s automobile research and development operations, primarily as a chassis design engineer.

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