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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. So they pivoted to electric two wheelers manufacturing. A Brazilian expat, Jose Pinheiro, heads manufacturing at Ola Electric. There is a 3D inspection of the frame, with vehicle quality data getting into the cloud, right at the manufacturing stage. It weighs 24 kg.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

Note that many of these products are made by small manufacturers, so always check availability! One of the best reproductions of the Elf is Lee Hart's US $89 Membership Card kit , which compresses an Elf into two circuit boards that fit into a Altoids tin. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. That… may take some doing on GMs part.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If the “Big Three auto manufacturers aren’t building alternative energy vehicles with the money they’re getting from Congress, then what are they doing with it?

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. “Families could be making that drive in an emission-free vehicle manufactured in Oregon by Oregonians.&#

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