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Toyota Assembly Plant in Texas Turns Twenty

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Whilst we don’t generally run news of this sort, it is worth noting that this month represents a full two decades since Toyota put shovels in the ground to build what would become their San Antonio truck plant, a spot which currently cranks out Tundra and Sequoia machines. Why is it worth noting?

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Autonomous Vehicles Can Make All Cars More Efficient

Cars That Think

But safety isn’t the only potential benefit self-driving cars can offer: Teams of researchers around the world are showing that autonomous vehicles can also drive more efficiently than humans can. Autonomous vehicles operating in eco-mode influence the driving behavior of all the cars behind them.”

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Nissan and Akachan Honpo are working on a project to make life better with cars and babies. The research is part of the Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi) is led by Purdue University, in partnership with SEAS, the University of Connecticut and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

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A work/life balance Amanda Barbosa is a robotics engineering student at Federal University of ABC, in Brazil. Barbosa is a robotics engineering student at Federal University of ABC , in Brazil, who is working full time in Santos for Leroy Merlin , a household goods company.

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IIHS studies find most e-scooter rider injuries happen on sidewalk

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To explore how e-scooters are affecting road safety, IIHS researchers interviewed more than 100 e-scooter riders whose injuries brought them to the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, between March and November 2019. Shared e-scooters logged 86 million trips in the US in 2019.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. University, North.

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Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

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A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston.

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