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QA With Luca Guala of Systemica on Masdars Personal Rapid Transit System

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress had an opportunity to follow up with Luca Guala of Systematica to learn more about the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system being applied in Masdar. The initial system is likely to be expensive because of prototyping issues but the final PRT system promises to be rather cheap compared to mass transit. Earlier post.)

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This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love

Electrek

These uniquely Chinese vehicles often have interesting faces , giving each vehicle a unique personality. more… The post This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love appeared first on Electrek.

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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: You can literally buy a (surprisingly cheap) electric fire truck

Electrek

They’re all about having the coolest, weirdest or craziest personal vehicle on the block. more… The post Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: You can literally buy a (surprisingly cheap) electric fire truck appeared first on Electrek.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022. The post Cheap mini e-truck? As Electrek ‘s resident tester of all things not-cars, I was fortunate enough to get behind, on top, and inside of some interesting and far-out forms of electric transportation. Flying electric boats?

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight.

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What One Man Can Do About The Climate — More Than Dream

CleanTechnica EVs

What can one person do? It was cheap at the time, in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, the sub-tropical […]. It’s easy to look at the daily news reporting on climate crisis after climate crisis and despair. Is it too late? My house was built 50 years ago — two stories, brick and glass.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular? Why would I bother to do that, you ask? That, however, isn't really true.

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