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Tesla Testifies In Texas, Takes On State's Auto Dealers Over Stores

Green Car Reports

Texas is tough, and Texas car dealers are no exception. But electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], in the person of its CEO Elon Musk, testified yesterday at a hearing in the Texas legislature on a bill that would allow it to sell its cars directly to Texas buyers.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

The Truth About Cars

A rotund enthusiastic person, Perry was one of the best sales people I’d ever seen. Perry would never last long at a store because he possessed an ability to p**s off every one of his co-workers and managers. Reed threatened to quit unless he was allowed to work customers at both stores and dealership management relented.

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VinFast Still Kicking and Planning to Show Vehicles at CES

The Truth About Cars

Also on display will be the full-size VF9 SUV, which the company said will integrate a new streaming service CES attendees can experience personally, and an all-new electric bike. From VinFast: The first group of VinFast dealers consist of Leith VinFast (Raleigh, North Carolina), Smith Haven VinFast (St.

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Road Test: 2024 Nissan Leaf SV Plus EV

Clean Fleet Report

For us, this was the best way to efficiently drive the Leaf SV Plus, increasing the battery charge by converting kinetic energy into electric energy that is then stored in the battery. Nissan stresses that ProPilot Assist is not autopilot, which no car company has, including the one that fled California for Texas.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge.

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Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric SUV now EPA-rated for more than 300 miles of driving range

Green Car Congress

Other Bluelink-enabled features include: Remote Profile Management stores selected vehicle settings in the Bluelink cloud, with the ability to remotely update and push back to the vehicle, personalized to driver preferences. In the future, Hyundai dealers will offer a simple automobile subscription service for IONIQ shoppers.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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