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First look at Dacia's new £16k electric city car. New Twingo-based EV will be revealed later this year ahead of a public debut at the Paris motor show.
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Used Electric Car Sales Hit A Record High In March.
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California's draconian 3d printer [and CNC machine] statute, laws which Andy wrote about
here, passes committee, and takes the next step to becoming law. Former software QA engineer and 3d printing nerd, Joel Telling, has the details in "
Strictest 3D Printing [and CNC machine] Regulation YET!"
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Donut Lab, which was met with Andy's skepticism in his
Nothingburger article regarding their Solid State battery claims, has allegedly been reported to the cops by a director of their partner company, Nordic Nano. The soap opera continues - will CEO Marko Lehtimäki get amnesia? A supposedly translated version from a Finnish news organization is here:
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Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing [and CNC machines].
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The Federal Aviation Administration has rescinded a temporary flight restriction (TFR) that created a no-fly zone within 3,000 feet of “Department of Homeland Security facilities and mobile assets.” The new restriction softened the language of the original and abandoned the threat of civil or criminal penalties but added the Department of Justice to the list of protected agencies.
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A research team from Nanjing Tech University has developed a lithium batteryinsulation material capable of withstanding temperatures up to 1300°C.
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MASSIVE 600 ton Liebherr mining excavator converted from diesel to electric.
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Legislators in Washington, California, New York, and Colorado are pushing bills that would require surveillance software on every 3D printer [and CNC machine], ban machines that aren't on a government-approved list, criminalize modifying your own hardware, and even make possessing digital design files a felony. Petition, bill summaries, and legislative contacts:
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US gov't blocks China's largest LED chipmaker's $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds — US blocks acquisition attempt of European firm.
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Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’.
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CATL’s 2nd-gen Freevoy 230Wh/kg hybrid battery blends LFP and NCM at powder level, pushes EREVs to 600 km EV range.
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Florida's attorney general announces criminal investigation into OpenAI.
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Mars rover carries out chemistry experiment never done beyond Earth, discovers more building blocks of life.
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