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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. The charging power gap used assumptions including the battery size, charging power and range efficiency (assumed 3.5 miles per kWh) for the expected future fleet of new EVs, including current EV units in operation.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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Unaccompanied by modal diversion programs, the stand-alone potential for local compact growth programs to reduce auto-based CO 2 emissions falls into a more modest range of 0 to 7 percent depending on the metropolitan area. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.