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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

Green Car Congress

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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Differential effects of the current pandemic on the sales of light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks

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Given the above rationale, the present analysis examines the sales of light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks in March through June of 2020—the first four months of the current pandemic—by comparing them with the corresponding sales in February 2020. Several of the values were recently updated.)

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DEED sets records

Electric Auto Association

Members of the Gateway Electric Vehicle Association at the St. Louis DEED event. From established events to first-timers Gateway Electric Vehicle Association ’s (GEVA), participation in the St. EV slide presentation to sophomores at Trotwood-Madison High School.

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Amazon leans on Rivian to deliver packages in 100 U.S. cities for the Holidays

Teslarati

.’ After launching a pilot program this past Summer in a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, Rivian and Amazon have expanded their fleet of EDVs to over 1,000 units present in more than 100 cities across the United States.

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

Green Car Congress

Clarkson noted that: Interferences from human-related Hg emissions within the biogeochemical cycle of Hg in natural waters have presented a complex environmental problem. The conversion of inorganic mercury to monomethyl mercury accounts for approximately 50 per cent of this neurotoxin present in polar marine waters. 159-166.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

Cars That Think

Klein I was surprised to see that Nokia Bell Labs was one of the presenters at the summit. A new use for inventory monitoring On 3 October Nokia Bell Labs announced that Graybar, a large distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products headquartered in St.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. Louis, and north of Florida. “We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb. And that includes Atlanta, which is 10 times larger than Asheville.” The reason for the instant success?