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Charity expands services with support from mygrimsby fund

My Energi

Regenerating the community Selected as a recipient for the mygrimsby fund, Creative Start received £1,500 to support ongoing improvements to its new workspace, ‘The Great Escape’, and the development of the first recovery café in Northeast Lincolnshire and a community kitchen.

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Rivian Introduces $45,000 R2, Surprises With R3

The Truth About Cars

And let’s be clear – that’s the type of customer to whom most of these will be sold, earmarked for weekend warrior overlanding and the like when its owner wishes to escape the concrete jungle for a few days. Pricing is set to start at $45,000 and go up from there.

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Ford Issues Another Recall for Fire Risk

The Truth About Cars

Certain Maverick, Escape, and Lincoln Corsair models are included from model years 2020 through 2023. This time , the recall involves 125,000 trucks and crossovers for fire risk, including the ultra-popular Maverick.& & This recent recall action builds on a similar action from last year.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from.

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Ford Planning a Range of New Hybrid Models

The Truth About Cars

Ford currently offers a few hybrids, including the Escape Hybrid, Maverick, and F-150. He also noted that Ford would not follow the typical hybrid mold of cars like the Toyota Prius and would instead bring more unique solutions to market. It also sells three EVs and is rumored to be working on a new electric truck.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

Cars That Think

Saracco also published a daily blog on the IEEE Future Directions website, where he mused on the latest technological developments and their impact on humanity. He was interested in the details, those small nuances that often escape notice, but for him were the key to truly understanding people and the world around him.

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Ford Fixing MIA Quality Control, ASAP

The Truth About Cars

One would think it is common sense to not let vehicles escape the factory with known problems, but it not unheard of for managers to permit the line to continue with an intent of addressing quality snags after the fact.

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