Tesla driver using Autopilot died in collision By Alexandria Sage and David Ingram SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) – Tesla officially touts its partial self-driving Autopilot feature as a back-up to human drivers, but some of the car maker’s comments – and some high profile videos – have led many drivers to think of […]
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Atacama Desert power plant raises expectations for locals By Fabiola Ortiz, Thomson Reuters Foundation SAO PAULO, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Deep in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, a remote community of 6,000 people is preparing to host the country’s largest wind power plant. The residents of Freirina commune, on the coast of Huasco province, 700 km
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Synergy gasoline developed at same research and engineering labs as ExxonMobil Formula 1 racing fuels SPRING, Texas- Exxon and Mobil stations in the US have launched a new synergy gasoline the company claims enhances vehicle performance with an enhanced “seven ingredient proprietary formula.” Exxon says that the new gasoline helps remove intake valve deposits, which can lead
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Mexico heavily subsidizes retail electricity rates, customers pay half of actual cost of producing power Mexico is in the process of reforming much of its electricity industry and earlier this opened up day-ahead and real-time trading in a new wholesale power market, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Although wholesale prices briefly spiked for
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Renewable energy to produce 12 gigawatts of capacity SEOUL, July 5 (Reuters) – South Korea plans 42 trillion won ($36.65 billion) in investment in renewable energy and related infrastructure by 2020 as part of efforts to meet its pledge at last year’s Paris climate summit to cut greenhouse emissions. Of the total, 30 trillion won
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Carbon capture system would see CO2 from industry injected into empty North Sea oil reserve OSLO, July 4 (Reuters) – By 2022, Norway could realise every step in the development of a technology many see as critical to reducing global carbon emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS), it said on Monday. Oslo said it could capture
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Rwanda Lake Kivu part of plan to boost access to electricity to more people By Clement Uwiringiyimana LAKE KIVU, Rwanda, July 1 (Reuters) – Rwandans blame the “demons” of Lake Kivu for the deaths of fisherman and others who have occasionally disappeared on one of Africa’s great expanses of water in the heart of the
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While plug-in electric vehicle sales have been concentrated on the US West Coast, adoption in Northeastern states expected to grow BOULDER, Colo.- A new report from Navigant Research forecasts significant growth in 2016 American plug-in electric vehicle sales, driven primarily by sub-$40,000 PEVs. The study assesses plug-in electric vehicle sales and populations in the US and Canada,
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In a post-COP21 world, carbon policy will gain more influence over electrification of transportation – Wood Mackenzie HOUSTON– If the Tesla Model 3 and new electric vehicles (EVs) from other manufacturers can deliver on the recent pronouncements made, then a wider electric car adoption can be expected than previously thought, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest research.
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Sun powered phone charger station developed by Edinburgh University students By Karolina Tagaris LESBOS, Greece, June 16 (Reuters) – For refugees and migrants stuck in Greece, a smartphone is a lifeline — as long as its battery lasts. But access to electricity can be hard to find in overcrowded camps, nor is it always free in
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