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Off With His Head: Heritage Customs Shows an Open-Top Defender

The Truth About Cars

A custom shop in The Netherlands has changed that with a new creation called the Valiance. Heritage Customs holds no stock of Valiance Convertibles on site since each conversion is designed specifically to customer wishes and requests. Depending on spec, it can take upwards of 3 months to create one of these machines.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. I heard it. A 2020 U.S.

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Hydrogen bicycles, new e-scooters, & more! The coolest stuff I saw at Micromobility Europe 2024

Baua Electric

I recently had the chance to attend Micromobility Europe 2024 , the latest industry tradeshow promoting the proliferation of right-sized personal electric vehicles. They seem to offer the kind of rider commuters are after, while still drawing on decades of the Netherlands’ rich history of cycling culture.

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“Inspiring Female Founder” – Jordan Brompton spotlighted in The Successful Founder

My Energi

Indeed, we’ve grown rapidly from a handful of staff manufacturing products by hand in a countryside workshop, to a workforce of more than 400, operating from a state-of-the-art facility in Stallingborough, with subsidiaries opened in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia along the way. How did the idea come to you for the company?

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

Cars That Think

IEEE Spectrum carried out its conversation with Foster by email to find out more about why RF exposure assessment research has been such a success, what makes RF dosimetry so difficult, and why public worries about health and wireless radiation never seem to go away. Are there ways in which dosimetry efforts are improving?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Our Founders Story

My Energi

Jordan Brompton, CMO and co-founder of myenergi, explains how a conversation between her and Lee Sutton, CEO and co-founder of myenergi, a renewable energy technology company, led to becoming no. “There’s only one ride that interests me – the incredible thrill ride of taking over the world!” 9 in The Sunday Times 100.

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