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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

Cars That Think

Due to their low cost, thin form factor, and pliability, flexi discs became the medium of choice for magazine publishers who wished to supplement articles with audio content. Or maybe an unscrupulous engineer had absconded with the disc after the issue arrived in Kansas City. Recordings were not limited to musical performances.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

Croffut's account and many other wonderful facts about the history of decorative lights are available on the website Old Christmas Tree Lights.). In 1910, an article in. area, and the Washington Post ran a feature article on them in 1941 with the subheading "They Collect Just About Anything You Can Name.".

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

ITF also noted that despite its inefficiencies, single-occupancy cars will dominate in three critical areas: flexibility, comfort and availability. In 2015, the one-year pilot program, Bridj, created a “microtransit” hybrid of ride-hailing and bus service in Kansas City. The possibilities of microtransit systems.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

If you do that, you can keep your vehicle at work all day long, so you’re increasing the revenue availability of your vehicle. Charged : Tell me about your Kansas City International Airport project. We pay for the equipment with taxi fleets by giving them uptime availability. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

EV Adoption

But I recently came across an article and data that suggests that perhaps more than one-third of US households with garages don’t actually park their cars in them. The downside of wireless charging is that at least today no EVs available in the US have the necessary secondary wireless coil either standard or as an option.