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Tesla’s Elon Musk gives Rivian invaluable advice on manufacturing

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-based automotive plant potentially landing in Fort Worth, Texas , Musk stated it might be more beneficial to ramp its first plant before committing to a second one, as unit costs can be difficult to keep affordable in the early manufacturing stages. “It’s insanely difficult to reach volume production at affordable unit cost.”

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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. Akhtar is the CEO. and a Ph.D.

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Tesla’s push for telematic rates rejected by California Insurance Commissioner

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Tesla’s telematic’s system is available in four of the five states it offers its in-house insurance program : Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and Arizona. It requires drivers to share information that is somewhat personal, including where a car is at a particular time. California is the lone state that refuses to adopt the system.

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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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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Illinois Institute of Technology. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest. 993,450. .

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. It’s small and lightweight, easily movable by one person. In 2010, Henry Evans saw a robot on TV. One day I was a 6’4”, 200 Lb.

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Could Rivian R3 EV revive a stagnant small-car market?

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Rivian R3X To me, it’s hard to believe the R2 and R3 share so many common cues—even their front-end look—as they impress as completely different design statements and personalities. On the adventure front the R2 boasts an entirely new kind of bike-rack system that can be put up with one person and stored away much more easily.

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