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Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot

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But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy.

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€12M Current Direct project seeks to support marine electrification with swappable containerized battery system

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The overarching aim of the Current Direct project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative interchangeable waterborne transport battery system and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) Platform in an operational environment at the Port of Rotterdam at TRL7 that facilitates fast charging of vessels, fleet optimization and novel business models.

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Tesla Megapacks to be deployed at Apple’s California solar farm

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The project, which was approved by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors last year, will store up to 240 MWh of energy, and be used to help power the company’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino. . The project will also store energy gathered from the California Flats, a 130 MW solar farm.

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Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design is Amazon

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The hope is that control of the “full stack” will give them an edge in designing what their customers want. Does working at a vertically-integrated company require a different kind of chip design engineer? We have people running databases, web servers, key-value stores, lots of applications. on 27 August. Sinno: Absolutely.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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However, the idea needed to take into account which neighborhoods could even accommodate these changes. Bike lanes and green space aren’t going to be appreciated by people living in areas without grocery stores, schools, or places to work. "That's really what we're striving for in this new planning model."

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California ARB holding two workshops on developing measure to reduce emissions from TRUs

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This includes conceptual ideas on a phased implementation schedule for stationary operating time limits and zero emission mode operating percentages, as well as related details. TRUs control the environment for temperature-sensitive products transported in refrigerated trucks, trailers, shipping containers and railcars. Background.

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The Greening of Transportation

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In this month’s special report on the greening of transportation, we examine a moonshot idea for powering electric vehicles, the biggest change in aviation since the jet engine, and cargo ships with a battle-tested mode of generation. Patel describes several efforts around the world to adapt SMRs to the marine environment.