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Light-truck sales declined less during the current pandemic than car sales

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The raw data were annualized, seasonally adjusted sale values, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. The results are shown in the table below.

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WUSTL team develops high-power direct borohydride fuel cells; double the voltage of conventional H2 fuel cells

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Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed high-power direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFC) that operate at double the voltage of conventional PEM hydrogen fuel cells. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor and corresponding author. and Raymond H.

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Relationship between driving and GDP during the pandemic

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As shown in my ongoing monitoring of monthly changes in key transportation indexes , the amount of driving (adjusted for population) during the pandemic decreased substantially. The sources of the raw data were the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis , respectively.

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

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The raw data for the calculations—annualized, seasonally adjusted vehicle sales—came from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Several of the values were recently updated.)

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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—lead author Veronica Southerland, George Washington University. Previous research has shown transport-related air pollution, for which NO 2 serves as a marker, to be associated with both asthma exacerbation and new onset asthma in children. The authors acknowledge several limitations with the study.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware.

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DOE awarding $13M to advance fuel cell performance and durability and H2 storage technologies

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These projects, selected through collaborative research consortia, will leverage industry, university and laboratory expertise to accelerate advanced hydrogen storage technologies and fuel cell performance and durability. University of Missouri, St. Earlier post.).

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