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Taking your electric car abroad: everything you need to know

Drive Electric

There are a few essentials you need to drive abroad legally. As well as personal travel insurance, breakdown cover is another essential you should have. Legal requirements and key considerations. Check any relevant legal requirements such as speed limits, local laws and laws regarding child restraints. Passport(s). ?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. Well be providing more information about this in the coming months.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

Cars That Think

Is it personal? MT: My interest in engaging dads of daughters as gender equity advocates is both professional and personal. I've spent years as a lawyer and law professor using legal tools to advance women's equality in the workplace—seeking stronger employment-discrimination laws, equal-pay practices, and family-leave policies.

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Genesis GV60 review: Compact SUV a milestone for Korean luxury maker

EV Central

It is one of three new Genesis EVs to be launched in September , but it’s the first to be based on Hyundai’s E-GMP EV architecture, which means there’s no internal combustion version of the five-door coupe SUV in existence. There’s no spare tyre just a mobility kit. But just as enjoyable is its refinement. Talking point.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Underneath, EV electrical architectures share a lot in common, and our integrations are actually very straightforward, whether it’s an aftermarket accessory as a kit or, as we’re doing with Volvo Cars, an OEM-installed solution. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits.