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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

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RE-TROFIT: To extend significantly the life of vehicles. The entity will thus offer a turnkey service for the sales network: optimized transport of vehicles, supply of spare parts (Re-Cycle Center), renovation, storage, production of photos and videos and their online availability.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

The new zoning is designed to regulate the density and built form of buildings by controlling factors such as height, closer setbacks from streets, and specified amounts of windows to increase ground-level transparency. Potential benefits aside, this will undoubtedly become a controversial issue as things progress.

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Lightning Systems using predictive analytics to calculate vehicle fleet fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions

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Artificial neural networks are not only less computationally costly than existing simulation standards, but they are easier and faster to re-train and apply to new vehicles and drive cycles offering the potential for high accuracy estimates with reduced infrastructure requirements. LightningAnalytics is embedded in both of these products.

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AI Plays Key Role in EV Charger Deployment and More

Blink Charging

But, how is AI helping with EVs in the United States of America (and other countries)? The state of Michigan, for example, is using AI to help transportation planners decide where to put EV charging stations. AI isn’t just being used for deciding the best places to install EV charging stations, though. In many ways, actually.

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Ernst Young Survey Finds Roughly 60% of Chinese Consumers Would Consider Purchasing a Plug-in Vehicle

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The global survey included China, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Japan. Battery driving range was the top concern about plug-ins (73%), followed by charging stations (69%); reliability and serviceability (64%); and safety (64%).

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. By using these standards, we can better access vehicles manufactured in and for the United Kingdom, a far larger right-hand-drive EV market. The United Kingdom applies the EU emissions standards. Committee Secretariat. Parliament Buildings.

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Why Businesses Should Adapt EVs to Their Fleet?

Get Electric Vehicle

Several countries, ranging from China to the United Kingdom, have proposed banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars over the next twenty years and some as early as 2025. The average cost of charging an electric vehicle is $1 per gallon of gasoline… Prices haven’t been this low since the 1990s. You May Also Like.

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