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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

Cars That Think

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. During a training exercise in southern Ukraine in May 2023, a drone pilot maneuvered a flier to a height of 100 meters before dropping a dummy anti-tank grenade on to a pile of tires.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. All our hard work paid off.

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Cars That Think

Ukraine is launching a counteroffensive to retake occupied territory, including Zaporizhzhia. In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours.

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

Cars That Think

Eight years later, the Russians are again invading Ukraine. These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. An Orion was credited with an airstrike on a command center in Ukraine in early March 2022. unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs).

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Check Out This Ukraine Electric Vehicle Webinar

CleanTechnica EVs

Before getting into the EV news, if you’d like to help out in Ukraine, I have a good option to share. My best friend in Poland and an occasional writer here on CleanTechnica, Jacek Fior, has been helping out extensively, including driving supplies to the border. He shared this charity option with me. “This a […].

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Porsche Taycan production temporarily halted over Ukraine crisis

Teslarati

The Taycan may be one of Porsche’s most popular models today, but the crisis in Ukraine has resulted in the sports car maker temporarily suspending the production of its flagship all-electric sedan. Just last month, reports emerged that more Taycan’s were sold in Norway than internal-combustion cars in January 2022.

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Hacked electric car charging stations in Russia displays ‘Putin is a d*ckhead’ and ‘glory to Ukraine’

Electrek

Hackers are ramping up their effort to disrupt Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, and now it’s even affecting electric car owners in the country. A bunch of electric car charging stations outside Moscow were hacked and disabled.

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