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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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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. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive. MB of data.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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One of the keys to TOD is to desegregate commercial and residential land use so people live near where they work and even if they have to commute to work the distributed nature housing and commercial avoids the overcrowding in one direction you experience with dedicated residential neighborhoods. million are injured. Washington, D.C.:

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. As long as a standard 1.5

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. China, using largely coal-based electricity, had 6 million EVs in 2021, constituting the largest total stock of EVs in the world. But coal use varies, even within China.