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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated Aura Systems ’s AuraGen motor/generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle delivered to the United States Postal Service fleet (USPS). Aura Systems. The AuraGen development started in 1994 with the first working proof of concept demonstration in 1996. The AuraGen.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. We got a bigger cross section from across the United States, a pretty good cross section of younger people. Build better products.

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News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

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Things began to change when in 2017 Volkswagen first showed the Concept ID.Buzz electric bus, which led to today’s public debut of the production 2024 ID.Buzz for North America. VW announced that the total first year production run of all types for the whole world will be 100,000 units.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox.

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