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Rivian (RIVN) officially shuts down Normal EV plant for upgrades as R2 creates a buzz

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Rivian has already significantly reduced the cost of building each vehicle over the past year, but the EV maker expects the upgrades will “meaningfully reduce” material costs. The R2 stole the show at Rivian’s first open house in Normal since Fall 2019 as potential buyers lined up to see the new EV.

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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Amazon and Rivian have collaborated on sustainable electric delivery vehicles since 2019, with pilot deliveries occurring over the past year. by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Rivian builds its vehicles in Normal, Illinois. cities by 2030.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S. ARM WRESTLING WITH A BIONIC HAND!?!?!?!

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marincic charged $30,000 ($83,000 in today’s dollars) to build a batch of the batteries.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model. The company rebranded as Share Now in fall 2019 as BMW’s Reach Now was shut down and folded in with Car2go. In the U.S. It is now owned by Stellantis.

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