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General Motors Wants Dealerships To Update Their Image

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General Motors is revamping dealerships for its Buick, Chevrolet and GMC brands for the first time in nearly two decades. According to Automotive News , corporate leadership believes this will create a more welcoming environment for customers with the added benefit of making the models stored inside visible from outside of the building.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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In response to a question from IEEE Spectrum , Llewellyn elaborated that all of the major components of the electric propulsion system would be cryo-cooled: electric distribution system, electronic controls, power converters, and the motorsspecifically, the coils in the motors. Were working with partners on every single component, he added.

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Private 5G Network to Boost Hyundai’s EV Production

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This past week at the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Samsung and Hyundai Motor Company unveiled a private 5G network streamlined for low-power devices that connect across large facilities.

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The Quest to Ensure Nonspeaking Autistic People Are Heard

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We dont yet know why, but it may be related to the significant motor challenges associated with producing speech. ARs eye- and hand-tracking capabilities could be leveraged in activities that train users in the motor skills needed to type, such as isolating and tapping targets. We carefully considered our choice of hardware.

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Bollinger Motors and Mullen Automotive Are Becoming One Brand

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Mullen Automotive and Bollinger Motors are officially becoming one big brand. After the consolidation, we are laser focused and confident we will drive our products into the market while being fiscally responsible under one unified brand,” said Jim Connelly, chief revenue officer of Bollinger Motors.

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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

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So both had a vision that was about protection of the environment, about quality of life, about the use of technology to improve the quality of life. And you use the boil off, that means the little part of hydrogen that is evaporating, and put it through fuel cells that makes electricity for the electric motor. This is also important.

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EVs Help Air Quality. And Not Just In The Obvious Way.

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EVs have exactly the same friction braking system as gas cars, but because they rely on their motors for deceleration, they don’t need to put pad to disk as often to reduce speed. More On This Is EV Manufacturing Bad For The Environment? 5 EV Tire Myths Discharged Do Electric Vehicles Really Pollute More Than Gas Cars?

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