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First all-electric Google Street View car is a Jaguar I-Pace with air quality sensors for Dublin

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For the past few years, Google has equipped its mapping vehicles with air pollution sensors. Google worked with Jaguar Land Rover on the first all-electric Street View car that will be tasked with measuring air quality in Dublin, Ireland.

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Jaguar Land Rover & Google Measure Dublin Air Quality with All-Electric I-PACE

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The post Jaguar Land Rover & Google Measure Dublin Air Quality with All-Electric I-PACE appeared first on EV Obsession.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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Environmental pollution by conventional fossil fuel vehicles makes electric vehicles popular. Alternative fuels used in vehicles are also not 100% pollution-free. Autonomous driving of a vehicle can be pollution-free and “green” if the vehicle is a battery electric vehicle.

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

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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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Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways. —Liu et al.

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Driving Green Initiatives: Direct Pay Tax Incentives for Local Governments

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Through the strategic deployment of clean energy solutions within local communities, these initiatives not only advance environmental justice but also deliver tangible benefits, including cost savings for residents, substantial reductions in harmful pollution, and notable enhancements to public health.

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