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Aston Martin to make petrol cars ‘for as long as allowed’

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British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda will continue to produce traditional combustion-engine vehicles for as long as legally possible, its boss told UK media this week. Read more Aston Martin has decided to continue manufacturing petrol cars as long as it can after the carmaker delayed the arrival of its first ever electric vehicle.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. seconds, breaking a seven-year-old record for production cars that had been set by the roughly $ 1 million Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid. In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. Doing legal detective work appeals to Hoff for another reason: it gives him an excuse to hunt for interesting “antique” components at flea markets and electronics stores.

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