Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. The week I was in Shanghai, the Electric Vehicle Test Drive Center opened to the public in Shanghai Automobile City, a far suburb still reachable by subway. But it is an anomaly.

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Baua Electric

JULY 2, 2024

The two leaders took turns driving the armoured limousine during Putin’s pomp-filled visit, his first in nearly a quarter of a century to North Korea, in a demonstration of the two nuclear powers’ increasingly close ties. It will start additional production in St Petersburg later this year at Toyota’s former factory.

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Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2023

And finally, the Mirai botnet, which was created by three teenagers in order to basically get more market share for their Minecraft servers but ended up knocking the internet off for many people in the United States. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak.

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