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Greenius on Patch.com: Riviera Village Summer Festival Not So Green

Creative Greenius

I also wanted to see how my own hometown street fair stacks up against neighboring events in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Palos Verdes. I’m happy to report that there was a great BBQ truck that served up a smoking good pulled pork sandwich and a big BBQ’d turkey leg. Tags: environment.

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Ports of Auckland buys world’s first electric tug; 70-tonne bollard pull

Green Car Congress

There is an electric tug under construction for use in Turkey, but it is small (18.7m), is designed with a conventional twin screw propulsion line (as opposed to the Azimuth propulsion in the RSD-E 2513) and will work in a very narrow and tight environment. To ensure absolute safety, the tug also has two 1000 kW back-up generator sets.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Now spend 10 minutes watching a telepresence robot assemble a turkey sandwich. CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos! Happy Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate it.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

Green Car Congress

in Turkey, and 0.8% Another target group for the X-Class are successful adventurers, who live in an urban environment and participate in outdoor sports such as skiing or riding jet skis, or have their own boat. Argentina comes close behind with 11.6%. In Brazil, mid-size pickups have a share of almost 5% of the total vehicle market.

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American and European Standards organizations agree to strengthen transatlantic cooperation on standards for electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

The event brought together technical experts from industry, government, and other stakeholders to compare and discuss standardization priorities for electric vehicles (EVs) outlined in the October 2011 Report of the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on European Electro-Mobility and the April 2012 Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles – Version 1.0,

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The French are coming. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

At the event, Renault unveiled four electric vehicles: the four-door saloon Fluence; the Kangoo ZE electric delivery van; the Zoe ZE, an ultra-cute city coupe; and the Twizy ZE, a two-seat, four-wheeled enclosed electric enclosed scooter.

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