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Ford develops and begins manufacturing new powered respirator; expanding other COVID-19 efforts

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Ford, with design and testing consultation from 3M, has developed a new powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). Ford has also started providing manufacturing expertise to help scientific instrument provider Thermo Fisher Scientific quickly expand production of COVID-19 collection kits to test for the virus. Face mask production.

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Why India is in love with hybrid cars?

Baua Electric

Advantages of hybrid technology over pure ICE or EV It is well known that hybrid cars offer the benefit of both worlds, internal combustion engines (ICE) and electric vehicles (EV), by combining a fossil fuel engine with an electric motor and a battery pack. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, demands for personal mobility have surged drastically.

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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

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The three researchers used a Movit Line Tracer II robot they built from a kit from Japanese appliance shop Elehobby, now called Elekit. Stevo Pendarovsk The robot, powered by batteries, drove on a track drawn on a flat surface, according to the Milestone proposal entry on the Engineering Technology and History Wiki.

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Charged Up: The 2024 Dodge Charger is Finally Here

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The internal-combustion engine Mustang seems safe, at least in the short term. The extra horsepower on the R/T and Scat Pack models come from stage kits that will be standard at launch but will later need to be purchased separately. Muscle cars are going electric. Well, maybe not across the board. Dodge is quoting a 3.3-second

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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While AppLink is available in Ford vehicles now, OpenXC is focused on the future as an open-source hardware and software platform developed by Ford Research and Innovation to unleash the power of the open-source hacker community to explore what can be done with vehicle data.

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VW unveils fully autonomous, electric Microbus I.D. Buzz concept at Detroit; all-wheel drive, 270-mile range

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Volkswagen is presenting a fully autonomous, electric Microbus concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Buzz is built off the Modular Electric Drive kit (MEB). BUZZ is a next-generation vehicle based on the new Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB), offering comfort and plenty of space. Like the compact I.D.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. It was called the ThumbDrive. MB of data.

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