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Ashok Leyland produces 1 lakh trucks on its modular AVTR platform in Uttarakhand plant, ET Auto

The AVTR platform allows truck customisation to suit the needs of the customers. New Delhi: Hinduja group flagship Ashok Leyland has announced that it has rolled out 1,00,000th unit of the truck built on its indigenous AVTR platform at its manufacturing facility in Uttarakhand. The company had launched its modular platform AVTR in 2019, enabling…

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Canoo Expands Partnership with DoD Defense Innovation Unit to Further Develop New High-Power Battery Pack

Californian high-tech advanced mobility company Canoo announced that the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) significantly expanded the scope of its previously announced partnership. The company says it has leveraged it advanced commercial battery and integration expertise to deliver to the Department of Defense partners a technologically advanced battery pack that can be…

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Oases in the Bronx, Community Gardens Gain Recognition

Sheryll Durrant left her family farm in Jamaica in 1989 and embarked on a career in corporate marketing. But after the 2008 financial meltdown, she reconsidered her life. She returned to her roots. Now she runs a thriving urban farm wedged into a triangular plot in the Bronx, between the Grand Concourse and the Metro North railroad tracks. At her…

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Could the Next Pandemic Start at the County Fair?

It was showtime at the youth swine exhibition, and the pig barn was bustling. The competitors, ages 3 to 21, were practicing their walks for the show ring and brushing pig bristles into place. Parents were braiding children’s hair, adding ribbons and pig-shaped barrettes. Dr. Andrew Bowman, a molecular epidemiologist at Ohio State University, was…

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