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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. GM paid part of the $5.2B Smith forked over $2.5 billion ($7.4B

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EU’s anti-subsidy EV probe prompts retaliation from China

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The Chinese government’s EU liquor probe starts several months after Brussels started investigating cheap EV imports from China, including BYD. The volume of Chinese EVs at the event caught the eye of the European Commission. Prices have become a critical factor in the success or failure of an electric vehicle in the growing market.

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This 1970 Chevy Suburban Costs More Than Most Supercars

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Icon’s vehicles have never been cheap, but its latest vehicle goes above and beyond. Icon will reveal the wild 1970 Suburban in the flesh on November 19th at a charity event in Southern California. Interior touches include several hand-made bespoke touches, and Icon said it went over every button, knob, and dial as part of the project.

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Video Friday: Robots as Musical Instruments

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROS-I seeks to extend ROS and now ROS 2 to industrially-relevant hardware and applications, and the community has been a key part in realizing the successes to date. Twitter ] Thanks, Nicolas!

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Shell Recharge massively expands with Volta acquisition

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The company is also one of many that have attempted to make charging as cheap as possible by selling “billboard space” on each of its chargers. The Volta Charge acquisition is part of a much larger strategy Shell has employed for expansion over the past 2-3 years.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. This is Tesla’s longest event yet (I believe) and in typical Tesla fashion, it’s overflowing with information.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

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Yesterday, in a livestreamed event, Dan O’Dowd —a software billionaire and vehement critic of Tesla Motors’ allegedly self-driving technologies—debated Ross Gerber, an investment banker who backs the company. In part he is offended by what he regards as the use of unreliable software in mission-critical applications. What’s next?

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