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Disney+ Hotstar’s Sidharth Shakdher joins Ola – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Before joining Disney+ Hotstar, Shakdher was based in Seattle as head of marketing and growth at Amazon. Shakdher, previously the category marketing head of Reckitt Benckiser, successfully launched and established Dettol in the US personal care segment. In this role, he was managing Amazon’s US third-party marketplace.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

The Truth About Cars

Investigations commenced after Kenn Dahl, a Seattle-based gentleman who drives a Chevrolet Bolt, noticed his insurance premiums shot up by 21 percent in 2022. All told, 84 percent of automotive brands were found to sell or share user information and 92 percent gave drivers little to no control over what happens to their personal data.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Uber’s value proposition is that it is cheaper than using a taxi and much cheaper than using a personal car.

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Cars That Think

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. You compare that against human labor doing the same task,” Shelton says, “and as long as it’s apples to apples in terms of the rate that the robot is working versus the rate that the human is working, you can decide whether it makes more sense to have the person or the robot.”

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I We like to do in person meetings when we can actually visit something,” he continued, describing chapter trips to battery manufacturing plants, wind farms, and the solar array at the U.S.

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

Charged EVs

If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. We did a ribbon cutting for Kitsap Transit, which is right across from Seattle. This article appeared in Issue 60: April-June 2022 – Subscribe now.