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Rapido to recall all e-bike taxis – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Rapido further highlighted the recent advisory from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways that states that under Section 2 (7) of the Motor Vehicle Act 1988, motorcycles are to be considered as contract carriage and stated its legality of operation.

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California expected to move forward with diesel trucks ban

Teslarati

The EPA is expected to grant California a waiver to ban diesel trucks and a series of other regulations. According to a report from the Washington Post , the EPA will likely grant California a waiver to implement the regulations in the coming weeks. What do you think of the article? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

At the end of this article, Prof. Here is the full text of the entire article in case the link goes bad: [link]. Granted, nearly every other electric car company is trying to increase performance through aerodynamics and new construction materials. A commercial release, ideally, could occur three or so years from now.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. It appeared in the September 1989 issue of IEEE Spectrum. In March 1989, U.S.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

Cars That Think

As Albert Mudry and Mara Mills documented in their 2013 retrospective article “ The Early History of the Cochlear Implant ,” electrical stimulation of the ear dates to at least 1748, when Benjamin Wilson stimulated the scalp of a deaf woman with electricity. Even his thesis director advised Clark not to pursue the topic.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Wireless charging is nothing new— Charged has covered wireless EV charging since at least 2011—but it may be that its true value is only coming into focus now, as more and more commercial and transit fleets are electrifying. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits.