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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. Martin had been working on LEVs in STEM programs and the EV Challenge.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk confirms increased investment, R&D efforts in China

Teslarati

Elon Musk briefly appeared during the opening ceremony of the 2021 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China recently. The conference’s theme was a move “towards a new era of digital civilization” and “working together to build a community within a shared future in cyberspace.”

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

Cars That Think

The two project leaders— Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo and John Croat of GM—surprised each other by announcing their results at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983. Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo (left) announced the invention of a revolutionary neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet at a conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., in November, 1983.