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

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Demographic factors such as an overall urban population boom, the increase in urban single-person households and rapidly aging urban populations—the population age 65 and older in New York City, for example, is expected to increase more than 36% by 2030—will lead to significant changes in urban mobility. million to 229 million.

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

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announced its second Electric Vehicle Testing Program, this one with Saitama Prefecture for its next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); electric scooters; and electric carts. The Saitama program will focus on motorcycles, automobiles and power products.

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Daimlers car-sharing service car2go expands to Canada

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Members can drive the car when and where they want, and then they can simply leave it in any available “permit only” on-street parking spot in downtown or residential neighborhoods within the defined business area, or in one of the specially marked car2go parking spaces. The east border is Nanaimo Street and the west border is Alma Street.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling

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Unbeknownst to many, manufacturing new automobiles exacts a toll on our ecosystem—increased energy consumption and escalating greenhouse gas emissions further exacerbate the situation. Individual Perks Scrap car recycling extends personal gains beyond the horizon.

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News: 2025 Consumer Electronics Show

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Adrian van Hooydonk, senior vice president BMW Group Design, offered: The new BMW Panoramic iDrive not only makes our vehicles smarter and more user-friendly, it also enables much more extensive personalization, which turns every new BMW into a car that is very much the users own. Beyond Cars But wait, there is more!

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Is it the Right Time to Buy an Electric Car?

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Facts such as The Tesla stock being the ‘HOT’ one in the market right now, Elon Musk rises to the richest person in the world, Governments providing incentives for electric vehicles , etc. Service centres and service personals are easy to find to repair a gasoline car. Fueling Infrastructure and facilities. Conclusion.

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