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How One Man Got the Best Job in the World

The Truth About Cars

This week we chat with prolific automotive journalist Sam Smith about his new book "Smithology: Thoughts, Travels, and Semi-Plausible Car Writings, 2003 – 2023" and what it's like to make a living working with words about cars and car culture. Welcome back. This week we have another episode of the TTAC podcast!

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

Cars That Think

He has coauthored five books and more than 250 papers. A member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (IEEE MTT-S), Schindler served as its president in 2003. Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years. His publications have received more than 20,000 citations.

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BMW Brilliance Automotive opens battery factory in Shenyang; 3rd battery factory in BMW Group production network

Green Car Congress

First, in a highly-automated process, supplied lithium-ion cells, which are about the size of a paperback book, are checked and then combined into a larger unit, the battery module. The Dadong plant in the northeast of the city opened in 2003 and currently produces the BMW 5 Series Long-Wheelbase Version. Click to enlarge.

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Editorial: Growing old U.S. fleet complicates emissions objectives

Baua Electric

Unsurprisingly, a key driving force of the rise used to be the provision constraints lingering from the COVID-19 pandemic, which curtailed manufacturing and helped book customers of their current automobiles or despatched would-be new-vehicle patrons into the used-vehicle marketplace, S&P mentioned. reached a file 12.5

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century.

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The Portrait Artist

Cars That Think

Nick Holonyak , MOH recipient in 2003 for the development of the red LED, actually changed the way Perry thinks about her ethnic roots. “My He recommended a few books, I followed up on those, and my somewhat confusing family history fell into place.” And sometimes she gets a memorable meal out of the deal.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

Cars That Think

Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Fouché says the most interesting discovery he made during the five years he spent researching the book was “how shrewd, and careful, and savvy these black inventors were.