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Southern Unionization Remains An Uphill Battle As Governors Caution Against UAW

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Governors in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas released a joint statement against the UAW shortly before Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were supposed to begin voting on whether or not to unionize. These jobs have become part of the fabric of the automotive manufacturing industry.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

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And Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar may decide to shift assembly of some vehicles from China to the Volvo factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina for example. We will update this article once we do.). The loss of the tax credit could change the timing of these plans entirely. Polestar 2 – Source: Polstar.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. An abridged version of this article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “In Praise of Pong.”?.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. “This year is the 25th anniversary of the first Slow Down Move Over Law, passed in South Carolina in 1996. The Flaws of HumanPilot.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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In industrialized parts of the world, PEM assumes that an electrical device such as a water heater or electric-vehicle charger will determine its own need for energy, then use this need to determine if it should request an energy packet from a cloud-based coordinator. Our projects have yielded some promising results. “A To Probe Further.