New Projection: US Pedestrian Deaths Rise Yet Again in First Half of 2022

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:35:59 +0000

Dangerous driving, inadequate infrastructure and larger vehicles lead to deadly conditions for people walking, with one death every 75 minutes Drivers in the United States struck and killed 3,434 people in the first half of 2022 — up 5%, or 168 more deaths, from the same period the year before, according to a new analysis […]

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US Auto Industry Down 3+ Million Sales (19%) Since 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:46:31 +0000

The US auto industry has been declining steadily for a few years at least. Compared to 2021, the American auto industry’s annual sales were down by more than 1 million units, or 8%. Compared to 2020, they were “only” down by 725,726 units (5%). But compared to 2019, they were down by more than 3 […]

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US Auto Industry Up 10% In 4th Quarter — But Down 16% Compared To Q4 2019

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:15:56 +0000

The US auto industry is truly on the rebound. In the 3rd quarter, sales increasing 1% compared to the 3rd quarter of 2021, the first positive trend in a while. But was it just a lucky little blip? Seemingly not, as US auto industry sales in the 4th quarter of 2022 were 10% higher than […]

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More Than Half Of New US Electricity Generating Capacity In 2023 Will Be Solar

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:00:43 +0000

Developers plan to add 54.5 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the US power grid in 2023, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. More than half of this capacity will be solar power (54%), followed by battery storage (17%). Solar US utility-scale solar capacity has been rising rapidly since 2010. Despite […]

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Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Standards & Major Progress For A Made-in-America National Network Of EV Chargers

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:30:55 +0000

ev charging stations electrify americaMade in America Policies and New Technical Standards Support the Future of the Electric Vehicle Charging Industry Public and Private Actions Accelerate Buildout of National Network and Catalyze Manufacturing Boom

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Spot The EV: These Are The EVs I Bumped Into In 5 US Cities

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:28:17 +0000

The share of electric vehicles in new vehicle sales in the US was close to 6% in 2022. At the end of 2022, there were over 50 electric vehicle models available for purchase on the US retail market. The market leader in the US is Tesla, but other brands are also starting to get some […]

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Edwards AFB Solar & Battery Storage Project Goes Live

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:05:55 +0000

Edwards AFB solarEdwards Air Force Base in southern California is home to the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. It is the Air Force Materiel Command’s center for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluating aerospace systems from concept to combat. […]

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President Biden Announces First Of Its Kind Infrastructure Investment For 9 Nationally Significant Mega Projects

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:30:40 +0000

The new Mega Grant program, created by the President’s infrastructure law, will bring massive economic benefits to communities across the nation. NEW YORK – Today, President Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded nearly $1.2 billion from the new National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) discretionary grant program for nine […]

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What The Least Populated Part of the United States Can Teach Us About Climate Change

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:35:09 +0000

I recently came across a YouTube video that both showed that there’s a severely unpopulated patch of land in the United States that runs from Canada to Mexico, and why this happened. In this article, I want to share some of the findings from the video and explain what they can teach us about the […]

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