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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

Baua Electric

On the platform, he has been mostly supportive of Musk and Tesla, but like many other shareholders, he started to be more critical since Musk sold about $40 billion worth of Tesla shares to buy Twitter. Dear leader” is a reference to Kim Jong-il, the former supreme leader of North Korea. There wouldn’t be a Tesla without Musk.

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PHEVs Are A Great Solution For Many — But PHEV Incentives Need Fixing

EV Adoption

Many industry observers (myself included) believe that PHEVs with 30 to 40 miles (or more) of electric range (sometimes referred to as “strong hybrids”) and which are plugged in and charged on a daily or regular basis are a great solution for many households. Consumers buying or leasing PHEVs with less than 30 miles of range.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. Another issue is being capacity constrained during rush hour if you only have one person per vehicle.

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

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data.

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How a Parachute Accident Helped Jump-start Augmented Reality

Cars That Think

That was the concept that got the military excited, and their interest wasn’t just for in-person tasks like surgery but for distant tasks performed using remotely controlled robots. As you might expect, when the research team came up with a new design, they didn’t just strap a person in and test it.

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