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You have these people in Silicon Valley who are saying, “You know, we need to work in the market; we need to take advantage of entrepreneurialism in order to make the world a better place. And we need to do that, specifically, in order to enhance personal liberty.” And the [strategies they preferred were] not through the political system, but rather through through technological development, based on the belief that if we just focus on improving technology, that will naturally improve society.

How Tech Billionaires Are Threatening America’s Transportation Future

Kea Wilson

North Dakota - $1.44 million to the Electric Vehicle User Range Anxiety Solution for Rural North Dakota that supports the installation of 500,000 charging stations by 2030, hopefully reducing the charging access disparity and “EV owner range anxiety.”

USDOT Awards Funding for Tech Infusion to Transit, Highway Systems

Kaitlyn Levinson and Assistant Editor, GCN

Reserve requirements could severely limit the true range of electric planes. A plane needs extra capacity to circle the airport for 30 minutes in case it can’t land right away, and it must also be able to reach an alternative airport 100 km (60 miles) away in an emergency. When you take all that into account, the usable range of a 19-seat plane goes from about 160 miles to about 30 miles. For a larger aircraft like the 100-seat planes that Wright is building, it’s less than six miles.

This Is What’s Keeping Electric Planes From Taking Off

Casey Crownhart

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