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Mercedes-Benz launches vehicle data analytics project with City of Boston to help improve uneven roads

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Participating MBUSA vehicles collect information on where they experience bumps in the road. The Surface Damages data product builds upon this technology and provides valuable data to cities to help monitor, analyze and improve infrastructure. However, the data quickly become outdated and ad-hoc changes are hard to monitor.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

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I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon. photo by Galliani (c). Now is the moment.

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SAIC plans Eu manufacturing facility for MG automobiles regardless of upper prices

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I expect it to be more expensive to build local, but when you sell 200,000 cars per year, it’s time,” stated William Wang, MG Motor’s U.Ok. MG will most probably develop the MG4 in Europe, Wang instructed Car Information Europe. Building local means you work together with local people. and Europe head. We are businesspeople.

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Battelle introduces Grid Command Distribution services and software for rapid modeling of smart grid distribution circuits

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Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Battelle staff developed the new Grid Command Distribution software internally as part of its work over the past two years as part of an ongoing smart grid demonstration project in Ohio: AEP Ohio’s gridSMART program, sponsored by the DOE.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white.

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USDOT and HUD Launch Collaborative Effort to Create Sustainable, Livable Communities That Integrate Transportation, Housing and Economic Development

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The new program builds on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a new interagency collaboration launched by President Obama in June 2009, between the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. First place in the best overall proof-of-concept category went to social enterprise startup Wakoma for the Nimble , an open-source, portable, wireless mesh network system that communities can build and deploy locally. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5