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The World’s Most Popular EVs Aren’t Cars, Trucks, or Motorcycles

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Hub motors are relatively affordable, low-maintenance, mass produced by the millions. A do-it-yourselfer can find entire, 800- to 1,000-watt hub motor kits for around $200, where mid-drive power can cost three to five times as much. As with EVs, those motors are growing lighter, stronger, quieter and more affordable.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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