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Stuff We Use: Power Inverters

The Truth About Cars

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. Addressing electricity requirements can be tricky, which is why power inverters exist.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. The thumb drive was all that—and more. With all these advantages, it effectively ended the era of the floppy disk. $7 MB of data.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

Cars That Think

Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. In 2000 he helped found DFT, which manufactured test equipment for high-speed semiconductor interfaces. He served as its CEO for two years.

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What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs

Clean Fleet Report

What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs Electric Trucks Are Gaining Weight; Is That Dangerous? Heavier electric vehicles are becoming more common as EV battery technology becomes more reliable and powerful and shows up in larger vehicles, like the GMC Hummer pickup and Audi Q8, among others. This article may contain affiliate links.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

Women may soon become the leaders in EV purchasing. Amy Sinclair speaks to friend about driving electric. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases.

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BYD's Auto Expo Presentation - Our Thoughts

Plug In India

The PluginIndia team, got a chance to visit the BYD (Build Your Dreams) India electric car stall at the Auto Expo 2023. Here is the BYD e6 electric car, but in today's video i want to talk to you about the PluginIndia team’s visit to the BYD stall at the Auto Expo. BYD as we all know is a global electric car behemoth.

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In 1961, the First Robot Arm Punched In

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He had earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1946 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1949, both from Columbia University. Condec eventually purchased Unimation in 1960 and bought Devol’s patent when it was finally issued the next year. After all, unloading the die-cast machine was a terrible job that no one wanted to do.