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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

Green Car Congress

The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less. GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

I was at a trade fair and I saw this little neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I From there, he turned to an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)-to-electric conversion. “I Our house was very popular because we always had hot showers and cold beer.”

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. As a descriptor, voice is more revealing than DNA or fingerprints.” A 2020 U.S.

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Why this electric ‘car’ the size of two motorcycles should be on your list

Baua Electric

I’m talking about Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) , the official term for what many people call Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). As long as they meet the regulations and can be certified as street legal, they’re allowed on nearly any road in the country that has a posted speed limit of 35 mph (56 km/h) or less.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. Via email, she answered IEEE Spectrum ‘s questions about how to be a principled AI researcher and how to change the status quo.