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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

The EV’s homes are as might be expected, in the more populous and wealthier pockets of the San Francisco Bay Area and sprawling Los Angeles region stretching down to San Diego. The post Personal: One in a Million first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. The cars Californians choose set the tone for EV sales for 2021.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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IEEE’s TryEngineering Summer Institute Provides Hands-On Experiences

Cars That Think

The committee scored the teams’ projects based on the perceived demand for the final product or service, the students’ passion for their project, the engineering and technical design used, and the style and effectiveness of each presentation. The teams came up with a product and a process to save a city by safely removing “toxic” popcorn.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

Cars That Think

Tushar Sharma Employer Renesas Electronics, San Diego. Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

National Drive Electric Week at the San Diego LBGT Community Center. EAA Vice President Elaine Borseth spoke at the National Drive Electric Week event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. EAA Vice President Elaine Borseth spoke at the National Drive Electric Week event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center.

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GM expands Maven carsharing to Denver, LA and San Francisco

Green Car Congress

Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, is expanding to the western United States, adding the Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets. Pricing in each western market starts at $8 an hour and includes insurance and fuel. There are no monthly membership or application fees.

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The British military just bought these off-grid solar EV chargers

Baua Electric

Photo: BEAM Global The British military has placed a $1 million order for San Diego-based Beam Global’s (Nasdaq: BEEM) off-grid solar EV chargers. The specialized trailer uses remote-controlled hydraulics that enables one person to stow, transport, place, and unstow the EV ARC systems. Get started here. –ad*

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