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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. GM paid part of the $5.2B Smith forked over $2.5 billion ($7.4B

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EU’s anti-subsidy EV probe prompts retaliation from China

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The Chinese government’s EU liquor probe starts several months after Brussels started investigating cheap EV imports from China, including BYD. The volume of Chinese EVs at the event caught the eye of the European Commission. Prices have become a critical factor in the success or failure of an electric vehicle in the growing market.

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This 1970 Chevy Suburban Costs More Than Most Supercars

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Icon’s vehicles have never been cheap, but its latest vehicle goes above and beyond. Icon will reveal the wild 1970 Suburban in the flesh on November 19th at a charity event in Southern California. Interior touches include several hand-made bespoke touches, and Icon said it went over every button, knob, and dial as part of the project.

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Video Friday: Robots as Musical Instruments

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROS-I seeks to extend ROS and now ROS 2 to industrially-relevant hardware and applications, and the community has been a key part in realizing the successes to date. Twitter ] Thanks, Nicolas!

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Stuff We Use: OBD-II Code Readers

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In any event, the smaller of these two readers, the Innova 3011, is a small unit about the size of a pack of smokes and only has two buttons plus a digital readout screen with decent resolution. In fact, such information is probably enough for most DIYers to suss out what’s wrong with their car instead of blindly throwing parts at a problem.

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Shell Recharge massively expands with Volta acquisition

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The company is also one of many that have attempted to make charging as cheap as possible by selling “billboard space” on each of its chargers. The Volta Charge acquisition is part of a much larger strategy Shell has employed for expansion over the past 2-3 years.

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Tesla Australia shop debunks misconceptions about parts and repairs

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Over the years, Teslas have garnered an unfortunate reputation for being a carmaker whose vehicle repairs are unreasonably expensive and whose parts availability is a nightmare. As per a Tesla repair shop in Australia, however, the electric vehicle maker’s repair costs and parts availability have reached parity with industry players.

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