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Air Taxi Startup Kitty Hawk Buys Out Former DJI Competitor 3D Robotics

CleanTechnica EVs

Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company founded by Google’s co-founder Larry Page, is buying 3D Robotics, a former competitor of DJI in the consumer drone market. CEO of 3DR, former editor of Wired magazine Christian Anderson, will join Kitty Hawk as chief operating officer.

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MG in premier position as new EV of choice for UK’s greenest taxi fleet

Drive EV

Award-winning Premier Taxis was named GreenFleet Private Hire/Taxi Company of the year thanks to its EV initiative after it began operating electric taxis in 2015. Premier Taxis Business Manager, Nikita Cutler, said: “The MG5 EV is great as it has a larger luggage capacity. Delivering news, reviews, tips and advice.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. Wireless innovator.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

BYD’s all-electric e6 production line at the company’s base in Shenzhen was “ready for manufacturing&# in March, but was only producing the gasoline-powered F6, according to Yang Binbin, who writes for Caixin magazine, a business publication based in Beijing.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [ 23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [ Frank (2012) Electrification of Taxi Cabs in Major Chinese Cities with Range Extended Electric Vehicles. MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6: Korean Model 3 clone, or something else altogether?

Charged EVs

We couldn’t get an estimated 0-to-60-mph acceleration time for our AWD Ioniq 6, and didn’t have proper testing equipment in our single-day drive to measure it properly, though one car magazine tested it at 4.3 Tesla quotes a 0-to-60 mph acceleration time of 4.2 Whither Hyundai, whither Tesla?

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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