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Green Revolution: CityCar

5 minutes 41 seconds

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Lisa Van Pay of the National Science Foundation meets with Will Lark, an MIT graduate student working on the CityCar project. The two discuss the technologies that make this vehicle unique and explore the relationship between art, science, and design. The CityCar team hopes that their ideas will someday be part of the solution to problems common to many cities: pollution, traffic, and lack of green space.

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Runtime: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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