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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

The 25 experiments address four global megatrends—explosive population growth; an expanding middle class; air quality and public health concerns; and changing customer attitudes and priorities—challenging today’s transportation model and limiting personal mobility, especially in urban areas. Data Driven Insurance, London.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. David Canfield Smith, a computer science graduate student at Stanford University in California, began work on his Ph.D.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. Grant Transit, which is in Moses Lake, Washington.