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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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NIST: Blockchain provides security, traceability for smart manufacturing; digital thread

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The “digital thread” was created to replace two-dimensional design and fabrication information (what we know as a blueprint) that has traditionally guided a product through its manufacturing lifecycle. Feeney (2019) “Securing the Digital Thread for Smart Manufacturing: A Reference Model for Blockchain-based Product Data Traceability.”

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2024 MG Gloster facelift spotted ahead of launch. Check details

Baua Electric

This updated Gloster will feature significant design enhancements and subtle interior revisions. --> The facelifted MG Gloster, a rebadged version of the globally updated LDV D90/Maxus D90, is set to debut in India soon. This updated Gloster will feature significant design enhancements and subtle interior revisions.

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Tata Electronics begins export of semiconductor chip samples from Bengaluru centre – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Some of these (products) are still in the pilot stage,” one of the persons cited above told ET. A second person said the company is also in near final stages for a successful tape-out of semiconductor chips in 28, 40, 55, 65 nm (nanometre), and some other higher nodes. Commercial production is slated for 2027,” the person said.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

In the EV industry the poster child of this is the term “charger.” This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant.

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EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

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For the Transportation sector, EIA projects that energy consumption will decline between 2019 and 2037 (in the Reference case) because increases in fuel economy more than offset growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Light-duty vehicle miles traveled increases by 20% in the Reference case, growing from 2.9 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5