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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

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One of my favorite things about the electric vehicle industry is just how much diversity there is in the designs and types of EVs hitting the market. Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022. The post Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats?

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

Green Car Congress

Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Meanwhile, according to an AlixPartners survey of 1,000 Americans regarding their views of the US economy and their personal economic situations, 83% said they had delayed or planned to wait at least a year to buy a vehicle.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. There is nothing special here!”

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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The point to be made is that the automotive industry, policy makers and also utilities need to go to work as early as possible to deal with this great opportunity. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. You really have to package together something that allows you.to

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