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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

Green Car Congress

These changes may include an increased emphasis on creating “walkable” city neighborhoods and an overall decrease in car ownership, though not necessarily car usage, as car sharing and other alternatives to ownership increase in popularity. No European or North American cities make that list. Technology, design and connectivity.

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Worldwatch Institute study expects number of countries running high-speed rail nearly to double by 2014

Green Car Congress

A 2006 study, High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US , released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30-70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes. The rise in HSR has been very rapid.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

The Saitama program will focus on motorcycles, automobiles and power products. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. First launched in 2006, this 4-wheel electric cart will also be used as a testing vehicle. Electric Cart (Monpal ML200). EV Plug-in Hybrid EV-neo Monpal ML200. – 2.0L

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Minnesota Plug-in Law

Plug In Partners

Here is the story from the Brownfield Network Plug-in hybrid flexible-fueled cars on the way Thursday, June 8, 2006, 2:01 PM by Bob Meyer Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed a law promoting plug-in hybrid flexible-fueled vehicles. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” as the sixtieth vehicle that Tesla delivered to customers.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol.

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Who’d have ever guessed HE’D get hisself terminated by automobile? on us when the hell and high water (as Joe Romm’s great book of 2006 called it) arrives in your neighborhood and becomes impossible to ignore any longer at your house. . Who could have possibly seen that coming down the road?…

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