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Amazon announces milestones within Rivian EDV fleet

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The two companies agreed on a 100,000-unit deal for the EDV, and Rivian started delivering them last year, while Amazon put them to work almost immediately. The fleet has now grown to over 3,000 vehicles, tripling in size and helping Amazon reach the sustainability goals that it outlined in 2019. I’d love to hear from you!

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Tesla Model X frozen lake mystery gets solved, and the truth is stranger than fiction

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Back in 2019, a picture of a charred Tesla Model X in the middle of a frozen lake in Vermont resulted in a lot of electric vehicle enthusiasts scratching their heads in confusion. But while he was able to pick up the car in Tampa, Tesla did not provide Gonzalez with the ownership paperwork needed to register or resell the car.

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SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft heads home after a month in orbit

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SpaceX Dragon and payload fairing recovery vessel GO Searcher departed its Port Canaveral berth on July 5th and ultimately rerouted to Tampa Bay after weather delays were confirmed. Deemed an Orbital Flight Test, OFT-1 almost ended in catastrophe twice in the handful of hours Starliner was aloft in December 2019.

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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. INVENTIVE SYSTEMS In 2014 Abbott began noticing that companies were increasingly using AI to do a variety of tasks including creating designs. Charles, Mo.

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

Charged EVs

SparkCharge co-founder and CEO Joshua Aviv spoke with Charged back in 2019, when the Roadie was in pre-production, and the company was working with prototypes. A recent appearance on Shark Tank that ended in a deal with celeb investors Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner brought the company an avalanche of publicity. .