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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

Clean Car

The UK Government has legally committed us to achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. Most notably, in April 2020 a raft of tax related changes were brought in, which made huge changes to National Insurance and Benefit in Kind treatment of EVs. For more on this see our tax blog [link]. Why do we need to switch?

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

Cars That Think

Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. He and a group of patent lawyers decided to seek out a test case to help establish a legal precedent. Pay Income Taxes? Charles, Mo. Hold a Patent?

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Navigant’s analysis indicates that only buyers in California and Oregon will purchase sufficient numbers of vehicles in order to meet the ZEV requirement in 2018 and 2019. At the same time, a few geographic markets will continue to prepare for FCV introduction by building hydrogen stations. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

Cars That Think

Indeed, modern society runs on code: Whether you buy something online or in a store, check out a book at the library, fill a prescription, file your taxes, or drive your car, you are most probably interacting with a system that is powered by software. If Neo were to help us peel back the layers, we would find code all around us.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). Singh did not build a profile from an unidentified voice.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

If we pursue the mandate of smart charging in private homes, there needs to be consideration given to government support for this, particularly for lower income households and retrofitting apartment buildings. It could be an informal arrangement or a legal entity. through funding or partnership). Focus areas 2b.

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