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NCSU study finds shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options

Green Car Congress

Using life cycle assessment, the researchers quantified the total environmental impacts of shared e-scooters associated with global warming; acidification; eutrophication; and respiratory impacts. These results were similar to those of a larger survey done by the city of Portland, Oregon.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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The doubling of the global middle class from 2 billion to 4 billion by 2030. The pilot is being offered to select Ford Credit customers in California—including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; as well as in Portland, Oregon; Chicago and Washington, D.C. Those four megatrends are: Urbanization and exploding urban populations.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Drive Oregon. Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. GE Global Research. Plug In America. Illinois Institute of Technology. Marathon Technical Services USA Inc.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

The Truth About Cars

.& If you live somewhere that recently introduced new traffic cameras, driving fines ( e.g. congestion charging ), lower speed limits, bicycle rental kiosks, or additional bike lanes, there’s a good chance the person making those decisions was influenced by Vision Zero. That was the impetus for this paper.” & Make no mistake.

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Cars That Think

One of the robots that made an appearance at the DRC Finals in 2015 was called ATRIAS , developed by Jonathan Hurst at the Oregon State University Dynamic Robotics Laboratory. Digit won’t be doing everything that a person can do,” says Hurst. It’ll just be doing that one process-automated task,” like moving empty totes.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. and it still leads globally. must create a strong electric car industry. The answer may lie in Silicon Valley.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I

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