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+8 +1California wants all its buses to be 100% electric
As of 2023, 25% of all buses bought by agencies in the Golden State will have to be electric, rising to 100% by 2029.
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+18 +2Tesla cuts vehicle prices by $2,000 to offset shrinking EV tax credit
Tesla knocked $2,000 off of the prices of its cars in the US on Wednesday to help offset a recent reduction of the federal electric vehicle tax credit. The automaker also announced initial delivery and production numbers for the fourth quarter of 2018, showing that the frenzied pace it carried through most of the year — led by the big Model 3 push — helped Tesla set new company records, even though it cooled toward the end.
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+14 +6Norway's EV Incentives Have Worked. Now What?
No other country on Earth has bet as big on electric vehicles as Norway, and it’s finally paying off. Half of all new cars sold to Norwegians are either fully electric or hybrid, making the country of 5.3 million the biggest per-capita market for EVs. Norway’s EV success is owed to both the carrot and the stick.
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+28 +8Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor
By the middle of this century, climate change may punch a hole through the bottom half of the Northeast Corridor.
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+18 +3Elon Musk says Boring Company tunnel under LA will now open on Dec. 18
Elon Musk said on Thursday that an underground tunnel developed by his privately held The Boring Company will open on Dec. 18 — an eight-day delay from the initial date.
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+16 +4Aston Martin will make old cars electric so they don’t get banned from cities
Add Aston Martin to the growing list of companies using nostalgia to sell customers on the idea of an electric vehicle future. The British automaker announced this week that it’s starting a “Heritage EV” program where owners of classic Aston Martins can have their cars converted to an all-electric powertrain.
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+44 +4Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
Government seeks to prioritise environment and end some of world’s worst traffic congestion
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+12 +1Madrid’s ban on polluting vehicles cuts traffic by nearly 32 percent in some areas
And it should save lives in the process.
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+36 +6The Electric Airplane Revolution May Come Sooner Than You Think
Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft that may help replace fossil fuel-burning commuter planes.
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+17 +4Meet Janet, the Most Mysterious Airline in the World
When flying in and out of Las Vegas, keep your eyes open for the white 737s with the red stripe. They are ferrying unnamed people to very secret locations, doing very secret things. By Howard Slutsken.
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+23 +3Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might
Roger Brown still remembers the shocked looks people gave him the first time he rode a Segway through the halls of the company's New Hampshire headquarters.
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+18 +1Airline vows to switch to electric planes on short-haul routes by 2030
A UK-based budget airline announced this week that it is “moving fast” toward developing a fleet of electric planes.
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+12 +3Are hydrogen trains the future of travel?
Trains that emit pure water could be in the UK by the "early 2020s", according to the government.
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+7 +1Taking the bus: New data techniques help improve public transportation
With traffic at a standstill and the environment a concern, cities are using new technology to improve buses, taxis, subways, and other public transportation options.
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+18 +4Trucking Is the Security Crisis You Never Noticed
Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)
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+22 +3China opens longest sea-crossing bridge
The $20bn bridge spanning 55km is an engineering marvel but has been dogged by safety issues and delays.
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+14 +4Scooters Reveal Urban America's Transportation Crisis
The transportation options in urban America leave much to be desired. There are crumbling metro systems, roads packed to the brim with car traffic, and around 1,000 bicycle deaths and 467,000 bicycle accidents per year. Silicon Valley and various tech enterprises have sought to “disrupt” this status quo with convenience-first solutions. First it was ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, which created various labor issues, and additional car traffic. Then dockless bikes, which cities fought against because they can be messy and threaten public bikeshare systems.
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+27 +10How Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights and Shorten Commutes
A Carnegie Mellon startup aims to manage traffic at intersections by harnessing the radios in tomorrow’s cars
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+8 +1Oil-by-Rail Rises Once Again as Safety Rules Disappear
While a second oil-by-rail boom is well underway in North America, both the U.S. and Canada are taking steps that ignore or undermine the lessons and regulatory measures to improve safety since the oil train explosions and spills of years past.
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+7 +2Uber, Lyft cars clog SF streets, study says
Uber and Lyft cars contribute heavily to San Francisco’s traffic slowdowns, especially in the downtown and at night, according to a report being released on Tuesday, which both companies said used a flawed and incomplete approach.
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