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The nominal point of the modules is to make it easier to replace defective cells, but Musk early this year declared that Tesla no longer needs modules, and eliminating the intermediate step should reduce both costs and vehicle weight.
What Tesla’s Battery Day might reveal: Project Roadrunner, Model S Plaid, and more | dzanemorris | September 21, 2020 | FortuneThe company has largely avoided responsibility for dangerous or defective products sold on its giant third-party marketplace by claiming that, technically, it isn’t the seller.
Why Etsy’s CEO is accusing Amazon of trying to wipe out its competition | Marc Bain | August 26, 2020 | QuartzReverse transcriptase is error prone, often resulting in defective or incomplete copies of the virus.
In a first, a person’s immune system fought HIV — and won | Tina Hesman Saey | August 26, 2020 | Science News
In fact, more activists said that the campaign messaging and strategy were defective, or that Clinton herself was to blame.
The case involved a lawsuit brought against Amazon by plaintiff Angela Bolger, who claimed a replacement laptop battery she bought from a third-party seller on the site was defective.
Amazon’s days of dodging liability for its marketplace could be numbered | Marc Bain | August 14, 2020 | QuartzHowever, just because a vaccine is replication-defective does not mean that you won't have an adverse event.
Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
Any infant deemed defective by the council was tossed off a cliff.
Seven years ago, a Chevy Cobalt with a defective ignition switch killed two teenage girls.
The Cops Who Found Out the Truth About GM's Deadly Cars—in 2006 | Michael Daly | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousIf this is not done, some person who afterward wished to purchase the land might object because the recorded title was defective.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesSuch a license though defective is valid until revoked by the proper authority.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIf he is injured while running a car from a defective brake of which he had knowledge, he cannot recover.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThus if a meeting of proprietors must be called by twelve of them, a call signed by eleven is defective.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
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