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Comment on NIO says Abu Dhabi investment took just 3 weeks from talk to deal by Augustus Meyer

CN EV Post

Simple solution: Make battery swapping tech "Open Source" for other NEV producers. Great idea; terrible execution. Why did Mr. Li not buy these cheap shares by himself, to show confidence in NIO ? Old time small investors, who believed in NIOs general concept, are deprived of their money.

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

Cars That Think

Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

Baua Electric

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

Cars That Think

But this tech gets you only so far: Noise cancellation works just for relatively low frequencies, and the overall hearing protection that earbuds can offer is also relatively limited. My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. The elephant in the room is the application ideas, which are frankly ridiculous. Animesh Garg.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

I understand that someone who isn’t a car person – and I have no idea of what level of automotive knowledge Kois possesses – might make an unfortunate correlation between the number of gears in a transmission and the amount of power a car’s engine possesses. There’s a lot more that’s wrong with this piece, but let’s start there.

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