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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Cars That Think

Ukraine is launching a counteroffensive to retake occupied territory, including Zaporizhzhia. In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

EV Info

While all eyes are on Ukraine and Russia, Europe’s energy woes are largely self-made, not due to outside forces. These are the prices before potential conflict erupts in Ukraine and an already tight European gas market is turned completely upside down. Let’s look at the bigger picture: – What has Europe done? In the U.K.,

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Eight new EV brands you’ve never hears of – and they don’t come from China

EV Central

With Western automobile companies withdrawing from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, the local manufacturer Kamaz has developed plans to revive Soviet-era Moskvitch as an EV brand. It’s a mini car called the Sion that’s capable of charging via the grid or solar modules. The ICE version is expected in Australia in 2023.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. And two months into 2021 it has already scored another 57k sales! E-buses were deployed.

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