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Ram 1500 REV locked in for Australia: Mega electric pickup truck to deliver 800km driving range

EV Central

But the brand is also pursuing from-factory right-hand drive production, both for the 1500 REV and for future product, as part of a broader push to go global. Historically, Ram brand sales have been predominantly in North America. “If you look at the numbers of South America, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand….this

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Lots of Italy, on Many Collectible Plates

Baua Electric

The group, which has about 400 members in Europe and South America, is planning an exhibition of the plates at the Fondazione Sant Elia , a museum in Palermo. These days, patrons of the restaurants receive the plates only if they order the house specialty as part of a multicourse Buon Ricordo tasting menu.)

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A Wild Flamingo Is Summering in the Hamptons

Baua Electric

Flamingos are found throughout the world, from tropical regions to the Andes in South America. They tend to make news when they escape their usual habitats. In 1964, The New York Times reported on a flamingo sighting in Niantic, Conn. An African flamingo that escaped a zoo in Wichita, Kan.,

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

Cars That Think

The Assembling of IBM’s Parts Back in the late 19th century, as the U.S. Time-recording devices tracked when workers arrived and left, while scales weighed everything from meat at a butcher shop to industrial machine parts. The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia.

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

Green Car Congress

A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. The automobile’s evolution from a stand-alone, independently operated vehicle to one that operates as part of a network.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm. The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates. —i.e.,

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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In his CES talk, Fields said that rapidly advancing connectivity; software and sensor technology; and big data were the enablers behind the Smart Mobility projects—eight in North America, nine in Europe and Africa, seven in Asia and one in South America. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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