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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

Green Car Congress

That includes most forklifts, golf cars and mobility vehicles for the disabled plus Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and personal submarines. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. Indeed, most electric aircraft are pure electric as well. Largest sector by value.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. The newest Polestar Space just opened in Silicon Valley, at the Westfield Valley Fair, 2855 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose. There’s a second location in Corte Madera in Marin County.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

In 2021, the IMU units you could buy off the shelf were pretty inexpensive and reliable. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. Concepts for a variety of different balancing robots. The product was to be named A.M.P.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

San Jose, Calif., What interested him was returning to his work on adaptive structures, combining the concepts he had wrestled with at Stanford with the power of the microprocessor in the service of speech recognition. Most clever engineers would buy the replacement gear and install it. He chose the latter.

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