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Production of 100th GILLIG battery-electric bus

Green Car Congress

The milestone bus will be delivered to Metro Transit in St. Louis, Missouri this month. GILLIG is currently booking new bus orders into 2023. The companies have collaborated since 2019 to bring reliable zero-emissions electric buses to communities across the country.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

Cars That Think

The Iowa farm boy was introduced to science by Illa Podendorf , an author of children’s science books and a family friend who kept the young Craford supplied with texts that suited his interests. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis, and St.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

Baua Electric

“Some people put in everything they had and now they are broke or homeless or wandering from cruise to cruise like tumbleweeds because they have no other place to go,” said David Purcell, a 78-year-old retired lawyer from St. I believe we have a strong case to warrant a criminal investigation,” Mr. Purcell said.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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AI’s Grandmaster Status Overshadows Chess Scandal

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grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup , in St. And so well do computers help in the home preparation of the opening, the early moves of a game, that players, including Carlsen, will sometimes deliberately play a second-best move just to force the opponents out of “book.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. It looked like a book, and Addison-Wesley agreed to publish it as a book. First Steps When Goldman set up PARC, one of his first decisions was to ask George E.

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