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Nissan Leaf Hits Seattle

Revenge of the Electric Car

Listen to what happens when the Nissan Leaf roadshow reaches Seattle. Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Director of Product Planning, says Seattle is part of a DOE project to place 2,500 charging stations to the Puget Sound region this summer. Read the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLIX)

The Truth About Cars

And they were front-drive luxury cars according to The Seattle Times. The article above also stated Lincoln would use the Mark name on a new luxury car shortly thereafter, as well as a new Ford Thunderbird. & Ford claimed killing the unpopular Mark VIII freed up space to build two new vehicles.

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Disney+ Hotstar’s Sidharth Shakdher joins Ola – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Prior to joining Ola, Shakdher was part of the founding leadership team of Disney+ Hotstar and led the platform’s marketing, international growth, and D2C business. Prior to joining Ola, Shakdher was part of the founding leadership team of Disney+ Hotstar and led the platform’s marketing, international growth, and D2C business.

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GM’s Cruise to resume testing its robotaxi service in Phoenix – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The robotaxi business was supposed to be a key part of her goal to double revenue to USD280 billion by 2030. The robotaxi business was supposed to be a key part of her goal to double revenue to USD280 billion by 2030. With Cruise’s problems and a slowdown in EV sales growth, that target looks tougher to reach. General Motors Co.’s

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

Cars That Think

On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Musser created the more affordable desktop model shown at top for the Seattle World’s Fair. The fair’s iconic landmark was the Space Needle.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

Cars That Think

The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Cars That Think

A modern upgrade was Clair Omar Musser’s desktop electric orrery , which he designed for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. The Zeiss planetarium in Rome , which opened in 1928, projected the stars onto the domed vault of the 3rd-century Aula Ottagona, part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian.

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