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VW Commercial Vehicles unveils e-BULLI; electric T1

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To convert an historic Bulli over to a drive system producing zero emissions, VWCV engineers and designers formed a team along with drive system experts from Volkswagen Group Components and the eClassics company, which specialises in electric car conversions. The company is also offering qualified dealers a ready-to-fit parts kit.

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Starlink to power efforts to bring high-speed web access to Australia’s rural students

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The project’s AU$100,000 grant would cover the cost of the Starlink kits themselves, which would be provided for the school itself, a select group of students, teachers, or community members. The grant would also include the hardware and software required for the setup for Cisco Video conferencing systems. . .

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XL1 dive and drive: Volkswagen aggressively optimizes for efficiency in its sleek diesel plug-in hybrid

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Comparison of electric drive fuel consumption (kWh/100 miles). By comparison, a Volkswagen Polo is slightly longer (156.3 The XL1 is not a product of any of Volkswagen’s modular Baukästen (assembly kits such as the MQB, MLB or MSB, earlier post ). Data: Volkswagen, US EPA and DOE. Click to enlarge. Initial visual impressions.

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

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Since projects were not assigned from above, the researchers formed their own groups; support for a project depended on how many people its instigator could get to work on it.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

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Our comparison group test featuring all of the above can be found here. Safety kit for Australian Ioniq 6’s should match the range-topping Ioniq 5’s. All rivals with AWD and long range batteries occupy a $73,000-$83,000 price space, so we expect the Ioniq 6 to follow suit.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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The polyhedra aid the eye in seeing the ions grouped as (green) Fe/Mg-enclosing octahedra and (yellow) phosphate tetrahedra. Smith Electric Vehicles is a division of the Tanfield Group. By comparison, nickel-based Li-ion systems have a cathode voltage of 3.8V. The view is looking along an axis of the crystal structure.

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