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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

But things aren’t quite as simple as that in the United Kingdom. litre diesel engine has a basic list price of £47,220 including VAT. But so do things like wheel size, engine mapping, and any features that might add a meaningful amount of weight, thereby impacting the product's overall efficiency.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The IEEE Women in Engineering group decided to use manga’s popularity with young people as a way to encourage girls to consider a career in STEM fields. When I saw [IEEE WIE] was looking for stories about a young woman who was solving problems with engineering, I thought that it was right up my alley and that it would be fun,” she says.

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Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

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The Impact of Technology in 2024 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study ” consulted 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Among the technologies they were asked to rank, AI came out on top. It can also result in better products.

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Ford reorganizing mobility solutions efforts; acquires Autonomic, TransLoc to boost mobility group

Green Car Congress

On the heels of an quarterly report marked by an underwhelming profit, and amid a general “lack of fitness” according to CFO Bob Shanks, Ford Motor announced that it is accelerating and expanding its activities in 2018 to deliver a broad suite of mobility products and services to personal vehicle owners, fleet owners and cities globally.

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Poll: Would You Want to Work a Shorter Week?

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The system enabled my colleagues and me to run some personal errands, see our doctors, and pick up our kids from school, among other activities. In June the United Kingdom launched a four-day workweek pilot project, with more than 3,300 workers and 70 companies participating, according to Fortune.

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100 Tesla Model 3 vehicles offered to private hire drivers in London

Teslarati

They Tesla cars will replace internal combustion engine vehicles, reducing air pollution in London. For instance, in December 2020, nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah became the first person in the United Kingdom whose cause of death was listed as “air pollution,” thanks to her mother’s efforts.

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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

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I interviewed several engineers and tech company executives about four-day workweeks. Providing more flexibility Before he retired, IEEE Senior Member John McWilliams was a senior innovation engineer at the Dairyland Power Cooperative, in La Crosse, Wis. It will minimize the time needed to be in-person at work.”