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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

Clean Fleet Report

CES 2024 was no different with several concept and new vehicle reveals, and technological advancements that will be part of new cars in the coming years. New BMW owners will be offered a growing list of music, gaming and news accessed through Bluetooth-enabled wireless gaming controllers that are connected to the infotainment system.

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Four Motiv electric shuttle buses deployed in one-year demo in Mountain View, CA

Green Car Congress

The Mountain View Community Shuttle service is aimed at moving residents and visitors through the City between neighborhoods, shopping centers, medical complexes, City facilities, and recreation areas. Google is funding the bus service for the community. The buses went into service last week.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. It has a highway part and a city part. car market.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. It has a highway part and a city part. car market.