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Geese Bounce Back Despite NYC’s Mass Kill Plan

Photo: via unforth (Flickr) Prompted by 2009’s bird-related crash-landing of an airplane onto the Hudson River, last month New York City officials went ahead with a plan to euthanize more than 170,000 Canadian geese, out of a statewide population of 250,000. With recent statistics showing that bird strikes are on the rise (and an

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Better Place is Testing Battery-Swapping in Tokyo

Photo: Better Place 59 Seconds Average Swapping Time Better Place , in collaboration with the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Nihon Kotsu Co., Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, has been doing real-world testing of a battery-swapping station in Tokyo. The trial, which started last April and has just been extended until November, aims to determine the “feasibility of battery switch as means for taxis to have instant, zero emission, range extension.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Better Place is Testing Battery-Swapping in Tokyo