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Study: Catalytic Converter Thefts Are Slowly Declining

The Truth About Cars

Catalytic converter theft has become a popular pastime for criminals looking to make a quick buck in the United States. regulators seemed absolutely committed to ruining vehicles via the Clean Air Act, catalytic converters would become mandatory hardware on all exhaust systems by 1975. Implemented during the Malaise Era, when the U.S.

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Elon Musk gets support from Jeff Bezos as he ponders making Twitter HQ into a homeless center

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This past weekend, Musk floated the idea of converting Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter. of the poll’s respondents were in favor of converting Twitter’s HQ into a homeless shelter. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips. About 91.5%

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Costco warehouse installs off-grid solar to power its EV fleet – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Retail giant Costco has installed on-site solar generation at a new electric truck charging project in southern California. Costco contracted Washington-based Trinity Structures to design and build an off-grid rooftop solar system at its distribution center in Mira Loma. Trinity completed the project in four months.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink files FCC application for user terminal with smaller antenna

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SpaceX’s recent FCC application asked the authority for permission to test five new user terminals in Washington, Texas, Utah, Colorado, and California. Starlink New Terminal by Simon Alvarez on Scribd. Don’t hesitate to contact us for news tips. Check out SpaceX’s recent FCC filing below.

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Waste-paper Chevrolet runs to Washington

Green Cars News

For the first time, a vehicle fuelled by US government waste-paper and waste cardboard has been driven through the streets of Washington D.C. The drive happened yesterday as part of the opening of the Washington Auto Show. The car, a Chevrolet converted to run on E85 [.].

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Send us your EV REVENGE stories

Revenge of the Electric Car

for their employees, Roque was inspired to convert his own car- a 1974 Aztec-7- into electric. has proven that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to convert a gas car into an electrically powered vehicle. Did you convert your own car? Tags: Film News. Two and a half years later, his car is fully electric!

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. The CCD would capture the image, which would then run through a Motorola analog-to-digital converter and be stored temporarily in a DRAM array of a dozen 4,096-bit chips.

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