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Malaysia wants EVs to be tax-free, duty-free to encourage consumers to buy

Teslarati

During his address to Parliament earlier this week, Malaysian finance minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz cited the reduction of pollutants and better air quality as the main indicators of why electric cars are a good idea. The current market for electric vehicles in Malaysia is small.

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CarDekho Group eyeing 40% consolidated growth in FY25: Founder Amit Jain – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The South East Asian market (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia) is yielding strong numbers, he said, adding that the company is evaluating the Middle East market (UAE and others) as the next phase of overseas expansion for the coming financial year.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

Cars That Think

The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014. The first idea we had was to try to use machine learning to predict which food rescue request might be at risk of not being accepted by volunteers,” Fang says. The second idea, devised by her student Ryan Shi , was to improve the push notification scheme. www.youtube.com.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

Cars That Think

There’s also the South Africa Far East cable, running from Cape Town east across the ocean floor to India and Malaysia, but it’s two decades old. But that plan evolved when the project’s backers started to have other ideas of what would make a good link.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

And they’re operating a big plant in Malaysia, if I’m not mistaken. Sanderson: Well, Lynas has got some issues in Malaysia. Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore? What are some of the precautions or ideas that people have to minimize the environmental impact? We don’t want those here.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

Green Car Congress

And innovative ideas need supporters that promote them. Participants in the competition, in addition to Part‑Time Scientists, include 15 teams from around the world including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Japan, Israel, Italy, Malaysia and the United States. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating.

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