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Forth and Mobility Development partner to launch national EV carsharing program; affordable model for underserved communities

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Forth and Mobility Development Group are creating a national partnership to launch the Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP), which will establish electric vehicle (EV) carsharing based at affordable housing sites in at least five states over the next two years. —Creighton Randall, CEO of Mobility Development.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego. While building his radio, he says, he fell in love with engineering. “I Sharma earned a Ph.D.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. territory pledged in 2019 to complete the shift; Hurricane Maria had severely damaged its infrastructure in 2017.

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Tesla Model Y continues to lead auto sales in Norway

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This even exceeds the shock result of the Tesla Model 3 from March 2019 (5,315 units), in both volume, and in market share. A similar personal best was gained by its slightly lower volume sibling, the Opel Corsa, just outside the top 20. The Model Y alone took over 38% of Norway’s new passenger auto registrations in March.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Tesla Van, revised Cybertruck, Tesla Boat — Here’s what could be coming

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” While a Tesla Van might be a great idea for some personal applications, this would be something that would undoubtedly be used as a commercial vehicle. “If it turns out nobody wants to buy a weird-looking truck, we’ll build a normal truck, no problem,” he said. So we’re not going to do motorcycles.”

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