The week in transportation: Plug-in milestones, Teslas, 3d-printed bikes, Sparks, stupid tweets, etc
It's Friday, the week is almost over. Time to look back at some highlights from this week in transportation!
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Build your city bike to order in a new kind of bike shop
Gallant Cycle introduces a new way of selling bikes in an elegant, minimalist store, for people who want a bit of style in their city bike.
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Transport Canada scraps study that would have tested the efficacy of side guards on trucks
Everybody thinks mandatory side guards are a great idea, except the trucking industry. So why was this study spiked?
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Sculptural Japanese wooden bike sports serious curves
This wooden bicycle prototype features some beautiful tweaks to its flowing frame.
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Wireless charging for e-cars and buses is arriving
In Mannheim, Germany, city buses at regular stops will also charge up their electric batteries, making range anxiety a thing of the past.
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China increases 2020 fuel economy standard to 47 MPG
The U.S. fuel economy CAFE standards of 34.1 MPG by 2016 and 54.5 MPG by 2025 were an important step in the right direction after decades of near-stagnation, and others are starting to follow suit.
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What's new in bikes at VELO Berlin (Photos)
In spite of snow and freezing winds, the bicycle season officially opens and we check out the trends and innovations for 2013.
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Getting to the bottom of Ford's hybrid fuel economy controversy
We'll be doing a longer-term review of the C-MAX hybrid to see what kind of MPG we get in real-world conditions.
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This safer cyclist-friendly truck design could save many lives
Even if you've never driven a single mile in your entire life, a lot of what you own and what you eat has spent hundreds of miles inside a truck. We need to make them safer for pedestrian and cyclists.
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Elon Musk TED Talk: Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX, etc
If there's one thing that can't be said of Elon Musk, it's that he doesn't try his best. Few entrepreneurs succeed in just one of the many difficult fields that he's tackled, but it's almost unprecedented to see a single person attack on so many fronts.
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Bike delivery boom making big cities better
Big, big trucks on crowded city streets are a recipe for cyclist and pedestrian mayhem. B-Line and TNT are two companies taking monster trucks out of the city mobility equation.
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Raspberry Pi DIY dynamic bike headlight projects useful data on the ground (Video)
Cycling is our favorite way to get around, and in past years technology has created all kinds of devices that can help make it more convenient. This dynamic headlight is probably the coolest we've seen, though.
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The problem with cars in the city: "Possession combined with brute force make up ten-tenths of the law"
The big villain isn’t the internal combustion engine, it’s the car.
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Chevy Volt and Cadillac ELR could get downsized 3-cylinder engines
Originally, the Chevrolet Volt's gasoline range-extender was supposed to be a 1-liter, 3-cylinder engine. That didn't happen... yet.
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'SuperTruck' has 54% better fuel economy than the average long-haul truck
Even if you've never driven a single mile in your entire life, a lot of what you own and what you eat has spent hundreds of miles inside a truck.
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Reduce the amount you drive and win.... free gas?
That's the promise of a Canadian program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce congestion
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Futuristic commuter Citi Bike rides low
This concept bike is aimed at commuters to the office with its low riding profile and easy handling.
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U.S. fuel economy shows biggest gain since 1975
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its 2012 annual report on fuel economy for vehicles sold in the United States, and the results show that we're making some progress
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Electric cars NOT a problem for people with pacemakers, Mayo Clinic finds
The Mayo Clinic is known around the world for being thorough and not taking any chances, so when when a patient asked if it was okay to drive a hybrid car with an implented cardiac device and couldn't find a study on it, they tested things themselves.
