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Tesla Model S Plaid dismantles previous EV hot lap record by nearly five seconds

Teslarati

Washington in Gorham, New Hampshire. That was run in 2019 at the 1,000 Miles of Sebring Event when Kamui Kobayashi ran a Toyota TS050 Hybrid to the lightning-fast lap time of 1:41.800. That car was also driven by Fuller, who holds two records and Pikes Peak and both EV records at another Hill Climb event held at Mt.

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

Venues from a zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina and a raceway in Thornburg, Virginia , to a town hall in Exeter, New Hampshire , and a library in Taos, New Mexico , will provide engaging backdrops for events scheduled in 45 U.S. states and Canada. The main theme? It’s likely this year will be even bigger.”

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

Venues from a zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina and a raceway in Thornburg, Virginia , to a town hall in Exeter, New Hampshire , and a library in Taos, New Mexico , will provide engaging backdrops for events scheduled in 45 U.S. states and Canada. The main theme? It’s likely this year will be even bigger.”

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States with the highest and lowest truck traffic on interstate highways

Green Car Congress

The data are for 2019. New Jersey. New Hampshire. New Hampshire. The 2019 data presented in this analysis somewhat underestimate the percentage of current truck traffic. Specifically, truck traffic in 2021 is generally higher than in 2019, while passenger-vehicle traffic is still down.

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

Andrew Ng, Baidu’s Chief Scientist, recently projected that the first fully autonomous vehicles we see on the roads will be buses, followed by passenger cars: “A large number of such vehicles to be in operation within three years (= early 2019) and mass production to be in full swing within five years (= 2021).”.

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The FCC's Ban on AI in Robocalls Won't Be Enough

Cars That Think

Democratic Party’s New Hampshire primary election on 23 January, potential voters began receiving a call with AI-generated audio of a fake President Biden urging them not to vote until the general election in November. In response to the faux-Biden robocall in New Hampshire, the U.S. In the days before the U.S.