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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Ford Taurus SE

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The original Ford Taurus first appeared as a 1986 model , going through three generations and nearly 10 million sales (counting the Mercury Sable ) before getting the axe in October of 2006. That made 2007 the final model year for the "real" Taurus, and I've found one of these rare cars in a New Orleans self-service junkyard.

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Toyota Assembly Plant in Texas Turns Twenty

The Truth About Cars

Whilst we don’t generally run news of this sort, it is worth noting that this month represents a full two decades since Toyota put shovels in the ground to build what would become their San Antonio truck plant, a spot which currently cranks out Tundra and Sequoia machines. Why is it worth noting?

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Tesla is no longer just a luxury brand, says major auto outlet

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In a column shared on Friday, Automotive News Executive Editor Jamie Butters laid out an update to a 2022 piece that had initially called Tesla a luxury brand. One major automotive outlet says Tesla is no longer just a luxury brand, in part due to its unique pricing strategy over the past few years.

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Suzuki Motorcycle India reaches 8-million-unit milestone in cumulative two-wheeler production | Autocar Professional

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Journey to 8-million-units production SMIPL began its operations in India in February 2006 with mass production of its flagship scooter Suzuki Access 125 at its production facility located at Kherki Dhaula in Gurgaon. SMIPL achieved its first 4 million production milestone within 13 years.

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GM may have found its solution to its Ultium bottlenecks

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Kelty was with Tesla for 11 and a half years , starting in March 2006 and leaving in August 2017 for a Senior VP position at Plenty. You can also reach me on Twitter @KlenderJoey , or if you have news tips, you can email us at tips@teslarati.com.

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NanoXplore acquires assets of XG Sciences; silicon-graphene anode materials

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Founded in 2006, XG Sciences specialized in the production of graphene nanoplatelets and the formulations of advanced materials that amplify product performance across diverse applications such as Lithium-ion battery anode materials, automotive, packaging, composites, concrete, and other industrial markets.