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Indo-Italian JV Mangla Cortubi opens R&D Center and Corporate Office at Palwal, Haryana – ET Auto

Baua Electric

New Delhi: Mangla Cortubi Pvt Ltd , a joint venture between Cornaglia Italy and Mangla Group India, Wednesday inaugurated its cutting-edge R&D center and corporate office in Palwal, Haryana. Mangla Cor-Tubi is in the exhaust system business and supplies the exhaust systems to Mahindra & Mahindra, CNH, Sonalika, Escorts and many OEMs.

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We Need Software Updates Forever

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This corporate stinginess consigns far too many of our devices to the trash heap before they have exhausted their usability. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "Bricked by Age.". Doing so costs the manufacturer some of its profits. That's bad for consumers and bad for the planet. It needs to stop.

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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

For corporate automobiles that also see private use, benefit-in-kind taxes are calculated as a perk on top of the base salary. Rather than simply pegging corporate car allowances primarily to income, Britain’s BIK taxes also take into account what kind of vehicle you’re driving and whether it has an exhaust pipe.

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Study Finds Elevated Ultrafine Particle Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports

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Aircraft exhaust includes pollutants linked to a variety of health problems. The scientists measured a range of air pollutants near a general aviation airport for private planes and corporate jets in Southern California (Santa Monica Airport) in the spring and summer of 2008.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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So he returned to Dayton and got an engineering job at the AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate working on air acoustics and designing exhaust systems for military airplanes. The articles are great. The two organizations signed a corporate membership and sponsorship agreement in 2018 to collaborate on several areas of mutual interest.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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Everyone in the family feels physically and emotionally exhausted from his long decline. This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Although it’s notable that Big Tech has made a foray into the field, most of the activity isn’t coming from big corporate players.

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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

These articles cover three different aspects of the tragic tale, but all are authoritative, fact-filled pieces written by journalists with first-hand knowledge of what’s going on in the Middle Kingdom, and I recommend that you read all three (and weep). Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.