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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

Green Car Congress

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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NHTSA: US traffic fatalities increased 3.3% in 2012

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Ten times as many riders died not wearing a helmet in states without a universal helmet law than in states with such laws. 15 or higher—nearly double the legal limit. In addition, 18 states and Washington DC showed decreases in drunk driving deaths. Motorcycle rider fatalities increased for the third consecutive year (7.1%

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Pedott test-marketed the Great American Turn-On at People’s Drug in Washington, D.C. In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off.

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Behind the Scenes of Spectrum’s Dive into the Atari 2600 Design

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After some legal wrangling, we were able to publish. It helped kick off the software era for home consumer electronics,” says Joe Decuir , who worked on the design of the original VCS chip at Atari and is now a lecturer at the University of Washington and an IEEE Fellow. If you wanted a new game, you needed a new machine.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

But it may also signal a de-escalation of the pressure Washington has brought to bear on the Chinese company now that Huawei is on its heels. Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. Washington embarked on an intense campaign to block Huawei, and Ms.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Washington’s drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China’s control of the critical minerals sector. Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. While the 1972 U.S.