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China’s EV market hits its stride with 1-in-3 sales being electrified

Teslarati

The top spot, as expected by anyone who has watched the Chinese market, was the Wuling HongGuang Mini EV , a cheap and practical EV made by none other than a joint venture with General Motors (the company that sold 26 EVs in the US Q4 2021 ), SAIC Motors, and Liuzhou Wuling Motors. What do you think of the article?

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

Teslarati

Porsche’s 800V high-voltage architecture is more vulnerable in this regard than a low-voltage architecture such as Tesla’s 400V, or what other manufacturers use. Porsche has cut costs for its premium Taycan BEV, which poses a risk to customers, according to the whistleblower. Porsche’s Zuffenhausen site.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. New York, 1985).

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Not only were development costs absorbed in company overhead, but there was no markup to pay, as there would have been inf the chips had been built by another company. It’s only sand.”

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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