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Nissan muscles up electric marketing, VW ID testing, Tesla fire: Today's Car News

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A new Tesla Model S unexpectedly caught fire—twice—after getting a flat tire in California. electric hatchbacks testing in South Africa. A new Chinese electric carmaker plans to sell electric cars in the U.S. via the owner of the defunct automaker Coda. And Volkswagen teased a video and images of its new I.D.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. The patent’s owner, AI pioneer Stephen L.

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), South Africa. University of California, Office of the Chief Investment Officer, US. Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures, US. Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, China. Xavier Niel, Founder, Iliad Group, France.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

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In 2020, after performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market , where testing took place in EV hotspot California in early September 2020. A total of 5 charging providers were tested last year.

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EV Charging: A Look at the International Landscape

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South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. was 40,582, with the majority of those (nearly 32,000) being in California. was 40,582, with the majority of those (nearly 32,000) being in California. The number of public EV charging stations worldwide passed one million in 2020, making it a landmark year. That puts the U.S.

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New Tool to Assist in Deciding Whether to Use Managed Relocation of Species in Adaptation to Climate Change

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Partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the working group is co-led by Jessica Hellmann and Jason McLachlan of the University of Notre Dame, Dov Sax of Brown University, and Mark Schwartz of the University of California at Davis. David Richardson of Stellenbosch University in South Africa led the writing of the paper.