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Tesla existed before Elon Musk: Founders on how they pitched the idea

Green Car Reports

They attracted investment from Musk, who was granted a chairman of the board position with his investment in 2004, during Tesla's first funding round. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were co-founders of Tesla, aiming to produce what became the Tesla Roadster.

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Taiwan’s Voters Reject Nuclear Power Expansion, But It Really Isn’t Needed To Clean Up The Air

CleanTechnica EVs

When I was there in 2004, it was generally a good idea to avoid putting your hands on things and avoid leaning on walls outdoors if wearing white. Some Context Air pollution has long been a major issue in Taiwan. Failure to do that could mean you’d get black soot on your face or dark […].

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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

Green Car Congress

The Sustainable City Year Program, part of UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative now in its tenth year of pairing students with community partners in need of fresh ideas, partnered with LTD over the 2019/2020 academic year.

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Sci-fi and Hi-fi

Cars That Think

Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992 novel Snow Crash. The idea they hit upon—turning a planet into a computer—is not new in science fiction, Cass notes.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn

Cars That Think

Khan soon after conceived the idea of open-architecture networking. In March 1973 he recruited Cerf to help him make his idea into reality. Kahn has received several recognitions for his work, including the 2004 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

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Ford explains high performance F-150 Lightning teaser

Teslarati

The vehicles allow the Blue Oval to test out the most extreme performance ideas on one of its familiar vehicle platforms, which results in innovation eventually reaching consumer offerings. Perhaps not as exciting as an upcoming product, a demonstrator can give a great idea of what Ford will offer consumers next.

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NASA awards $247.5M contract to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to build quieter supersonic aircraft

Green Car Congress

It’s an idea first theorized during the 1960s and tested by NASA and others during the years since, including flying from 2003-2004 an F-5E Tiger fighter jet modified with a uniquely-shaped nose, which proved the boom-reducing theory was sound.

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