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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. The sensor itself is not going to prevent a neighborhood from flooding," she said. We realized that there were little to no quantitative or real-time flood data available.

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Driving Your City Forward With Clean Electric Public Transportation

EV Connect

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) notes that, globally, transportation accounts for 64% of oil consumption , 27% of energy use and 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. And China’s 400,000 electric buses make up around 99% of the global total. That doesn’t even factor in the other costs.

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LEED Certification and EV Charging Stations: What you need to know

Blink Charging

To gain a LEED point for future EV charging plans, a project must: Make 10% of all parking spaces (or at least 6 spaces) EV Ready. LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. Make sure they use regionally standard EV connectors. How does LEED work?

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

But for ambitious fleet staff, it’s experience that can make them far more attractive to future employers. It’s crucial to plan for future upgrades—by wiring for higher power or more stations than needed at launch—to prevent the need to retrench and add wiring down the road. It can well become a big, complicated, sprawling job.

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

Green Car Congress

demonstrated a measurement approach to for urban air pollution mapping at 4–5 orders of magnitude greater spatial precision than possible with current central-site ambient monitoring. Air pollution varies very finely in space, and we can’t capture that variation with other existing measurement techniques. —Apte et al.

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Parker Hannifin gaining traction with RunWise HD hydraulic hybrid; developing CNG-based HD system, next-gen MD system

Green Car Congress

Benefits of the system include a 35%-55% reduction in diesel consumption (fleet average 43%) with lower accompanying greenhouse gas emissions; reduced criteria pollutants; increased productivity, and brake savings. All of it will be global. CNG concept. —Mark McGrew. —Mark McGrew.

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Is it the Right Time to Buy an Electric Car?

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Governments all over the world are providing bonuses and incentives in the form of tax reduction and subsidies to promote the use and adaption of electric vehicles as it is an easier way to decrease pollution and improve air quality. The companies are also provisioning substantial benefits to increase their market share on the EV market.

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