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Stellantis: new hydrogen Ram Trucks will be made in Mexico

Baua Electric

This year, we are starting production of larger vehicles in Poland,” Stellantis’ hydrogen program, Jean-Michel Billig, told German-language magazine Welt. And, as such, they can’t afford the kind of downtime that many fleet managers currently associate with battery electrics. In the US, that means RAM Trucks. Work trucks.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. His projection came true over the decade that followed. He will be sorely missed.”

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. Yeah, they can afford it.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

James Cortada It became a commodity business not only because of the chips and the operating system, but because other companies were able to put it all together at a lower cost than IBM. Once the PC business in IBM got folded into the main corporate structure, its costs of operating went up. Because everybody had good machines.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. Is it worth the extra almost 50 percent added to the cost of the car? And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. Is it worth the extra almost 50 percent added to the cost of the car? And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. Whats more, businesses can also afford to spend a little more on their vehicles until the cost of the technology falls.

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