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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

Baua Electric

export controls pursued on national security grounds since 2019 hammered its businesses, especially smartphones. Private EV makers like BYD have proven adept at developing high-tech capability in-house, whereas state-owned stalwarts have struggled to innovate and so count on the likes of Huawei to boost competitiveness, analysts said.

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Infiniti tech, Chrysler Pacifica recall, Hyundai Kona electric, charging costs: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Faster charging is coming—but it won't come cheap. And we detail why the Hyundai Kona Electric is one of our three finalists for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019. Infiniti bumps turbo fuel efficiency with a new variable-compression engine. Chrysler recalls Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivans—again.

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Russian researchers find simple, efficient way to strengthen aluminum-based composite materials

Green Car Congress

However, we are not going to stop here, and in the future we plan to continue working on the creation of more advanced, complex (3-, 4 - and more phase) and cheap composites, the production cycle of which will include the use of aluminum of technical purity and cheaper alloying components. Letyagin (2019). Akopyan, N.A. Belov, E.A.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

The Truth About Cars

Before we get to GuideStar, we need to cover much context around why GM was so keen on high-tech things in the Nineties, and the massive amounts of money it spent in its pursuit. Smith also saw tech as a way for GM to move toward the future. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. Smith forked over $2.5

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

Cars That Think

Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). A third of the top 15 articles relate to wireless and radio tech, with one concerning a home-brew radio telescope (October 2019).

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Cars That Think

These high-flying, low-tech aircraft are already in use for surveillance, hovering at 18,000 to 27,000 meters to track drug runners. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

Cars That Think

But the pilot represents a significant reduction in scope since Facebook first unveiled its plans for the Libra cryptocurrency (Diem's precursor) back in 2019. "We Remittances are payments made by foreign workers to their families back home, and experts say it one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain-based payments.

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