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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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What's the matter with Costco?

Plugs and Cars

Costco's own magazine proudly reported in 2006, just as the film was being released, that 64 stores had a total of 90 charge stations. For example, the Mountain View location, a place I've charged and shopped at a few times a year since 2004. Just take a look at an evchargermaps.com entry for a Costco with chargers.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

Cars That Think

IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. His many recognitions include the 2004 IEEE Region 6 Community Service Award and the 2012. National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S. org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

Cars That Think

For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year. During the past three and a half decades, logic synthesis has enabled about a 10 millionfold increase in chip complexity, he says.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb. Comstocks Magazine, February, 2006 ) "Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Hell, yes," he says.

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