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A New Fund Helps IEEE HKN Student Chapters Flourish

Cars That Think

The first grants have been awarded to fund programs including chapter-building and visibility activities, mentoring, and alumni engagement events. Officers at the Mu Iota Chapter at Seattle University used the grant to help pay for an electrical and computer engineering mentoring event it held.

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UAW Makes Sizable Demands of GM, Ford, Stellantis

The Truth About Cars

Earlier in the week, the union conducted a live stream outlining a list of 10 core demands slated to be presented this week. The automakers are likely open to wage increases but are expected to balk at reinstituting cost-of-living adjustments and pensions, according to sources. Those will be the specific demands.

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News: 2024 Mazda CX-90

Clean Fleet Report

More Kodo looks At the reveal event we saw the CX-90 in two exterior colors–white and Artisan Red (a $595 option). Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Acura ZDX Type S

Clean Fleet Report

Safety The ZDX Type S comes with an extensive list of standard safety features, beginning with front, side impact, side knee, and side curtain airbags. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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Progress! IRA signed into law

Electric Auto Association

The list of vehicles falling into each of these categories is still unknown. The IRA restores the 30% tax credit for an EVSE, and its cost of installation, to a maximum credit of $1000 (businesses may claim a larger amount). Now through 2032, vehicles must have final assembly in North America. The excludes many Asian and European EVs.

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Indian car and 2W OEMs recall 284,906 vehicles in 2023, 5.35 million since 2012 | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The first was on January 17 for 17,362 petrol/CNG variants of the Alto K-10, S-Presso, Eeco, Brezza, Baleno and Grand Vitara to check for “a possible defect the airbag controller, which in rare case might result in non-deployment of the airbags and seat belt pretensioners, in the event of a vehicle crash.” It’s a safety-catch for automotive.

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

Green Car Congress

Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution.

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