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Electric snowmobile summers on Greenland ice sheet
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Zero emission vehicle perfect for sensitive air-quality research
Published on August 14, 2013 | McGill Reporter
Written by Neale McDevitt
This past June, while many Canadians were beating the summer heat with a quick dip in a pool, a lake or the ocean, Ali Najmabadi was zipping up his parka to ward off the -20C temperatures waiting outside the Summit Station on the Greenland ice sheet. “And that’s their summer,” said Najmabadi with a chuckle.
Ah, balmy Greenland.