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This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love

Electrek

A big part of the fun of finding vehicles for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column comes from all of the interesting fascia designs. These uniquely Chinese vehicles often have interesting faces , giving each vehicle a unique personality.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

One of my favorite things about the electric vehicle industry is just how much diversity there is in the designs and types of EVs hitting the market. Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022. The post Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats?

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This cheap electric half-car/half-truck looks like a botched Alibaba El Camino

Baua Electric

Look, there are times in history when combining two seemingly divergent designs has resulted in triumphant success. It’s got an almost identical design to my own Minghong electric car that I tested out early last year (at least, it’s like mine when viewed from head-on). The humor here isn’t only in the vehicle design though.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Cookies are designed to taste delicious, so why measure quality based on something completely unrelated to taste? Why would I bother to do that, you ask?

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

It's not hard to turn them on and off with a connected socket adapter of some sort, but as you start to go back more than a few years, things become increasingly designed for direct human interaction rather than for the Internet, with buttons and switches and dials and whatnot. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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QA With Luca Guala of Systemica on Masdars Personal Rapid Transit System

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress had an opportunity to follow up with Luca Guala of Systematica to learn more about the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system being applied in Masdar. Systematica, a design and engineering firm based in Italy with clients throughout the world, combines a traditional engineering company with an urban planning studio.

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Mercedes-Benz addresses Stage 3 legalities; attorneys say suspicion lingers

Baua Electric

.” “In the context of Drive Pilot, this means that if a customer uses the system as intended and instructed and the system fails to perform as designed, we stand behind our product.” Courts can utility duty-of-care requirements to resolve negligence.

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