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Hertz’s Tesla order for 100k vehicles included Model Ys, which will be available in late April

Teslarati

Hertz also stated the Model Ys would be available in select regions in late April. While customers can click a “Book” button on Hertz’s website, the Model Y is not currently available for rental through Hertz. In October 2021, Hertz placed an order for 100,000 Tesla vehicles.

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Tesla Model Y added to Hertz fleet, joining Model 3

Teslarati

Last year, Hertz ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla in a deal that still has yet to be completely fulfilled, but it has not stopped the rental company from offering a new all-electric body style available to customers. One is able to be booked, but no locations are currently offering the Model Y. I’d love to hear from you!

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

Cars That Think

Spafford then went to Georgia Tech to pursue a master’s degree in information and computer science. I did a lot of reading and studying on where computers might be used and where they could go wrong, as well as reading science-fiction books that explored those possibilities,” he says. Spafford wrote the first papers on the topic.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention. The invention was used by the U.S.

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Help! I Missed a Cruise and the Cruise Line’s Own Travel Insurance Won’t Pay.

Baua Electric

Dear Tripped Up, After graduating from college in 2022 and working for a year, I used my bonus and some of my savings to book a nine-day Mediterranean cruise on Norwegian Cruise Line for my partner and me.

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Ford targeting smart parking as element of Smart Mobility; vehicle sensors, connectivity and big data

Green Car Congress

Although there are “ dozens ” of apps available that can help a driver find a parking space, said Dave McCreadie, Ford’s manager of electric vehicle infrastructure and smart grid technology and part of the cross-functional group working on the mobility projects, “ the data behind the apps seems a bit thin.” Natl Book Network, 2011.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. But for customers used to the comfortable, clean Scandinavian modern interiors of higher-end Volvos, with pale woods and available leather, some of the sustainable plastics may prove jarring.

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