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The USAF Pairs Piloted Jets With AI Drones

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These give aviators and antiaircraft crews something to practice their marksmanship on, and to serve that purpose the drones must be much more than mere clay pigeons—they need fighter-like characteristics at an affordable price. A Valkyrie drone releases a much smaller drone in a test flight in Arizona in 2021.

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Unraveling Electric Car Insurance Costs in 2023

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Unraveling Electric Car Insurance Costs in 2023 Checking Out All the Options To Get the Best Deal This article may contain affiliate links. North Carolina takes the lead in affordability, with the cost difference between insuring an EV and a non-EV being a mere $11 per month.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. By Dana Hull.

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Friday, 4 Dec 09. And the "Spirit" is on Target for Florence, Pinal Cty, , then on-ward to Parker, La Paz Cty and to Yuma, Yuma Cty Thereafter

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And EVJerr's blogging from Tucson with a couple sites to hit -- the popular bookstore, Bookman's is installing two e-vehicle chargers at two sites and one in Phoenix (See Arizona Daily Star, Thursday, 3 Dec "Ground broken for e-vehicle chargers" article by Dan Sorenson).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. Yeah, they can afford it. We do all the paperwork.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times. The New York Times looks at how EVs are going to shake up our cities.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades? Typically, each of governmental body has some number of elected, appointed and full-time staff which can affect how well, or even whether, a policy is implemented.

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