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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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The pickup will be launched in late 2017 in Europe under the name Mercedes-Benz X-Class. The double cab has emerged as the dominating body style because it offers room for up to five persons. Production for the European, Australian and South African markets will start at the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, in 2017.

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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

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Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now

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And plan on at least one order of the buttery Guyanese-style roti per person. But the owner and co-pitmaster John Bates also applies the techniques and creative license of fine dining to expand the Texas barbecue repertoire, which here includes pulled lamb shoulder, pork belly glazed with peach tea and turkey breast marinated in hefeweizen.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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The world had a chance to observe how content addressing worked in April 2017 when the government of Turkey. blocked access to Wikipedia because an article on the platform described Turkey as a state that sponsored terrorism. So far, IPFS has been used to build varied applications, including systems for.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year. Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020.

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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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Nearly six in 10 people consider themselves “car people,” and 81% feel that the car they drive reflects their personality, a least to some degree. For the global study, 21,549 interviews were conducted between 27 November to 8 December 2017 among adults aged 18-64 in the US and Canada, and adults aged 16-64 in all other countries.