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Tork Motors starts deliveries of cutting-edge KRATOS in Mumbai

Electric Vehicles India

Tork Motors launched its flagship product – KRATOS® and KRATOS®-R in January 2022. The company has received an overwhelming response for its cutting-edge electric motorcycle, post the booking announcement. Consumers can book KRATOS® and KRATOS®-R by visiting the company’s official website at www.booking.torkmotors.com.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

Given that, I was curious to figure out exactly why 3M became the most memorable brand in data storage during the formative days of computing, and why it abandoned the product. Unfortunately the floptical disk flopped, losing out to products like Iomega’s iconic Zip drives. The invention was used by the U.S. inch floppy.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Those workstations, as they were called, came to be used by most computer-generated-imagery production companies through the 1980s. For his work in the industry, Catmull received the 2006 IEEE John von Neumann Medal. They then built the E&S Picture System—the next generation of LDS displays.

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The Real Story of Pixar

Cars That Think

Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Group, which developed the Pixar Image Computer, the company's first product. So we bought two books each on how to start companies. And we thought we had an exciting product in the Pixar Image Computer. We had managed to keep the team together.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

Plug In India

I had been following Ather from its inception, booked 450 X, even attended the Ather 450X launch in New Delhi 2020. Of course solar-4w Ev is planned) Hence,it made sense to get a 2w,the last 2w I owned back then in 2006, was LML Vespa oh yes ? Some of the ownership experience are summed up in these links.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. Schneider Electric , Madni officially retired in 2006. In 1992, Asad M. And he had a problem.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Both production and consumption of ethanol were basically flat for much of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.