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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

Cars That Think

We’ve been covering the drone delivery company Zipline in Spectrum for several years, and I do encourage listeners to check out our great onsite reporting from Rwanda in 2019 when we visited one of Zipline’s dispatch centers for delivering vital medical supplies into rural areas. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org/newsletters to subscribe.

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Democrats continue to drive less than Republicans in response to the pandemic

Green Car Congress

compared with July 2019. in Arkansas. Thus, this analysis examined the relationship between the decrease in VMT in July 2020 in individual states (and the District of Columbia) and whether persons in those states were more likely to vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

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Opinion: Biden’s Tesla snub shows that clout, not innovation, is driving the American EV revolution

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It was also very evident in the fact that the US President personally made it a point to mention union work numerous times during the White House EV event. . This is almost ironic, considering that as recently as 2019, about 48,000 unionized GM workers held a strike because the company was looking to adopt electric vehicles.

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