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ElectraMeccanica and Tevva to merge; targeting electric commercial trucks in UK, Europe and US

Green Car Congress

ElectraMeccanica , a designer and assembler of electric vehicles, and Tevva , a manufacturer of electric medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, have entered into a definitive agreement, pursuant to which ElectraMeccanica and Tevva have agreed to combine by way of a British Columbia statutory plan of arrangement. Canada Ltd.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

The new zoning is designed to regulate the density and built form of buildings by controlling factors such as height, closer setbacks from streets, and specified amounts of windows to increase ground-level transparency. Potential benefits aside, this will undoubtedly become a controversial issue as things progress.

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5 Ways to Strengthen the AI Acquisition Process

Cars That Think

Strengthening AI procurement practices The IEEE P3119 draft standard is designed to help strengthen AI procurement approaches, using due diligence to ensure that agencies are critically evaluating the AI services and tools they acquire. The draft guidance is written in accessible language and includes practical tools and rubrics.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Monthly Myth: Autonomous driving is a pipe dream

Electric Auto Association

My brother Andy, who lives in the United Kingdom, is not alone in his view about autonomous driving: “What I find fascinating is how drivers get so excited about what Artificial Intelligence (AI) can do when they can do it perfectly well themselves. Who is at fault, the software designer or the owner of the vehicle?

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Total hydrogen station in Munich first to feature standard compressed H2 and BMW cryo-compressed H2 technology

Green Car Congress

LLNL designed and fabricated a cryogenic-capable insulated pressure vessel (up to 350 bar) for on-board hydrogen storage applications. This portfolio can be flexibly tailored to different vehicle concepts, customer requirements and legal and regulatory requirements in the international automobile markets.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. These “original equipment manufacturers” made computers for Apple, Dell, and other companies who outsourced the production of their designs. Trek’s struggles and Tan’s fall.

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