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Mercedes-AMG Brings Entry-Trim SL 43 to America

The Truth About Cars

& Said to provide quick throttle response across the rpm range, the turbo is operated via the car’s 48-volt electrical system, a piece of kit which also feeds the belt-driven starter-generator. Gearheads insist this configuration was actually the one to get, despite the V8 option grabbing all the magazine headlines.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. Figuring it was plain sailing from there, I canceled my Crowd Supply kit order and set off on my own.

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Optimistic EVs – the cure for range anxiety | Opinion

EV Central

Considering all this, I should know better than to fall into a state of what I call over-excited ignorance when I see something on a screen, and yet every time I get into a freshly charged EV and the dash display tells me I have some staggering amount of available range, I am stupidly impressed and make clucking sounds with my tongue.

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

Ranger is a patented approach to vehicle localization that enables precise navigation for automated vehicles using commercially available hardware in combination with SwRI algorithms. The latest Ranger kit can be used for automated driving, valet parking in garages and structures, freight distribution, and docking of buses and large trucks.

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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

Drive EV

The value of the grant has been reduced by £500 to £2,500 and is only available on cars under £35,000. The ZOE boasts the lowest running costs of any new EV available and, on a pound-per-range basis. Available in two motor outputs, either a 140 or 204PS, offering rear-wheel drive fun whilst providing up to 263 miles of range.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky,” said Albers. Commercially available tools, Intel’s engineers say, do even worse.

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

Cars That Think

A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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