Across the U.S. more than 15 million people live within a mile of an oil or gas well – and a new app is making it easier for those people to know exactly where those wells are located within their neighborhoods.
The market share of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids kept increasing steadily in California during the first quarter of 2017. On the other hand, the market share of hybrids, excluding plug-ins, has been declining since 2013 and continues to do so in the current calendar year.
Congress is probably not going to grant such deep cuts, but the numbers are nonetheless important, for two reasons.
The spill was never made public by the regulator and details about the well, its whereabouts and operator remain secret.
With a combined peak 680 horsepower, the car will sprint from a stop to 62 miles per hour in under 2.3 seconds (look out, Tesla). Top speed is limited, though, to 155 miles per hour.
Tesla is betting that it can create a fully automated manufacturing process that will be as revolutionary as Henry Ford’s continuous assembly line.
These bikes could work much like his Smog Free Tower does, absorbing dirty air, cleaning it, and pouring it back out as fresh air.
More than 55,100 responses rolled in by the time the comment period closed on Monday — but they were full of Americans sharing their experiences of growing up with dirty air and water, and with pleas for the agency not to undo safeguards that could return the country to more a more polluted era.
A few weeks ago Julia Chapman’s daughter was heading to a playdate across the street in their recently built suburb in Firestone, Colo. Suddenly, the friend’s house exploded, killing two of the friend’s relatives who were in the basement.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that a plan to have 1 million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2020 won’t work out, even as the automakers that make up the nation’s biggest manufacturing sector prepare a slew of emissions-free models.
