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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The MINI E Fleet trials began in 2009 in the USA (New York, Los Angeles and in the state of New Jersey), UK (Oxford / London) and Germany (Munich and Berlin). This fleet tests subsequently expanded into France (Paris), Japan (Tokyo) and China (Beijing and Shenzhen).

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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public charging outlets per ZEV, placing it ahead of only New Jersey and Alaska for availability of infrastructure. When treated as a country, California moved up two places in comparison to the 49 nations with greatest greenhouse gas emissions, surpassing France and Italy to become the 18 th largest emitter.

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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E.ON, a German power company; EDF, based in France; and Italy’s Enel are partnering with Nissan to build V2G networks. In fact, EDF is targeting a 30 percent market share for EV charging in France, Belgium, Italy, and the UK. Some are taking the California example to heart.

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The Computers Who Brought ENIAC to Life

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This weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival East in Wall, New Jersey, Kleiman will be screening her short documentary, The Computers , about the programmers. For decades, these women were largely unknown , except only as unidentified figures in photographs of ENIAC.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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