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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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World’s largest solar panel maker to slash thousands of jobs

Baua Electric

Cheap Chinese solar panels are also making it hard for European and US solar panel makers to compete. Meanwhile, cheap solar panels are driving demand, and new installations are booming globally. In response, solar companies are consolidating, and bankruptcies may be on the horizon. The US added a record-setting 32.4

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

Green Car Congress

AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Meanwhile, according to an AlixPartners survey of 1,000 Americans regarding their views of the US economy and their personal economic situations, 83% said they had delayed or planned to wait at least a year to buy a vehicle.

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Video Friday: Robots as Musical Instruments

Cars That Think

Everyday Robots ] The ROS-Industrial open source project reached the 10 year mark, and to celebrate, we reached out to the community to share snippets of the great work they have been doing. Its structure is 3D printed and easy to repair, and it's supposedly cheap, although I don't know how cheap. Twitter ] Thanks, Nicolas!

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

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The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours. They plan to develop the craft for guidance by GPS or camera technology, controlled by an operator wearing first person-view goggles.

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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. Get started here. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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