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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

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SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. The majority of consumers SpaceX bringing Starlink’s standard $599 kit would make the tech more accessible and, hopefully, significantly decrease delivery estimates. First, customers can have the Starlink kit sent to the Home Depot store.

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PACCAR and Toyota expand hydrogen fuel cell truck collaboration to include commercialization

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The expanded agreement supports ongoing development and commercialized zero-emission versions of the Kenworth T680 and Peterbilt 579 models featuring Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain kit, with initial customer deliveries planned for 2024. Toyota will begin assembly of the modules in the United States in late 2023.

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IEEE STEM Activity Kits Are In Demand at 150 U.S. Public Libraries

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More than 150 public libraries throughout the central United States now lend out activity kits that let children explore just about any aspect of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The kits teach youngsters what engineers do, as well as how to code, build robots, design video games, and create animations.

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ABC Companies partners with Lightning eMotors to launch first electric repowered motorcoach

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ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators.

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Trane bringing electric E-200 refrigeration unit for small trucks to US

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Trane Technologies is bringing Thermo King’s fully electric E-200 refrigeration unit for small trucks to the United States. The E-200’s plug-and-play solution requires no road compressor or drive kit to function.

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Tesla and SpaceX/Starlink are aiding Hawaii’s recovery efforts: Elon Musk

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Photos shared on social media suggest that Starlink kits are being deployed on the island to provide free internet to those affected by the Maui catastrophe. It is now the deadliest wildfire incident in the United States in over a century, and it is also the worst natural disaster in Hawaii’s history.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink has about 150k daily users in Ukraine, confirms official

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Interestingly enough, Starlink’s shipments to Ukraine were due in no small part to Fedorov, who asked Elon Musk for some satellite internet kits shortly after Russia invaded the country. Musk responded quickly, sending over batches of Starlink kits to Ukraine within the following days.

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