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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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Oregon has a Chief EV Officer to promote EV use. Louis, where the reasons for growth in this “New Wave” market include enthusiastic dealer engagement that results in increased community education and awareness, corporate and university outreach and midwestern pragmatism that appreciates the value equation of an EV. Washington D.C.

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

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The DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges for autonomous vehicles, in 2005 and 2007, formed the foundation for today’s autonomous taxis. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. In 2015, Hurst cofounded Agility Robotics to turn ATRIAS into a human-centric, multipurpose, and practical robot called Digit.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. might be able to cleave that knot fueled by a $100 million investment from Korea’s giant tech and energy company SK Inc. light-duty vehicle sales. households. and SK Energy.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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tech industry during the 1990s. The train ride from the village where he grew up to Central South Industrial University of Technology, where he earned his chemistry degree, took him by Yellow Mountain, a popular destination for hikers and tourists, but he has never visited there. The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov.

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