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Via Motors, Geely to co-develop medium-duty extended-range electric truck for China and Americas

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VIA’s vehicle integration capability, at both production facilities in Utah and Mexico, provides a range of commercial vehicles to meet zero emissions requirements. Zhejiang Geely Commercial Vehicle (GCV) has two sub brands; the London Electric Vehicle Company and Yuan Cheng Auto. Earlier post.).

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Enjoy today’s videos! DFKI ] The Utah Bionic Leg, developed by University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Tommaso Lenzi and his team in the HGN Lab, is a motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees.

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Book Review: Public Transportation: A Children’s Book by Paul Comfort

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with its famous golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869. Hard to believe that subways go back even further, to the London Tube in 1863! The book then moves on to a massive steamship, subways and the historic transcontinental railroad in the U.S. A blast from the past that’s still moving people.

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Leonardo DiCaprio & Venturi Automobiles launch Formula E electric race car team

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The series, with 10 teams, will compete in the heart of 10 of the world’s leading cities including Beijing, Los Angeles and London. Formula E is a new FIA Championship using electric single-seater race cars capable of speeds in excess of 225 km/h (140 mph). Prince Albert II of Monaco.

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Driving Dystopia: Companies Are Getting Serious About Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Connectivity

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million grant to Utah's DOT, which is partnering with Ford, General Motors and Nissan to develop V2I test procedures and test tools to deploy nationally. London now has Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) and cameras totally dedicated to enforcing that people are driving the right kind of vehicles or at least paying the applicable fines.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The nodes rolled out later that year: at UCLA in September; the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in October; the University of California, Santa Barbara , in November; and the University of Utah in December. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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How the computer “icon” got its name Sketchpad had on-screen graphic objects that represented constraints (for example, a rule that lines be the same length), and the Flex machine built in 1967 at the University of Utah by students Alan Kay and Ed Cheadle had squares that represented programs and data (like today’s computer “folders”).

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