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Plug In America joins global alliance

Plug in America

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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Volvo’s Polestar 1 PHEV makes European debut; pre-orders open 13 March

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The European debut follows its global media reveal in Shanghai, China, in late 2017. An additional 12 new markets for Polestar 1 have been added and will open for pre-orders simultaneously, including Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, Finland, France, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Portugal and Canada. Earlier post.).

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The Seabed Solution

Cars That Think

Later this year, as David Schneider notes in “ Deep-sea Mining Stirs Up Muddy Questions ,” a Canadian firm called the Metals Company (formerly DeepGreen Metals) plans to begin testing a nodule-collecting system comprising a seafloor robotic collector vehicle connected to a mammoth surface support ship.

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AR?V eBikes from GM are available for preorder; two models on BikeExchange.com

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V as the name of its new eBike brand, which includes two innovative, integrated and connected eBikes: the Meld, a compact eBike, and the Merge, a folding eBike. V was selected as part of a global crowdsourcing campaign announced in November 2018. In Belgium and the Netherlands, the AR?V V eBikes connect with the AR?V

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

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Their initial idea was that garaged vehicles would have a two-way computer-controlled connection to the electric grid, which could receive power from the vehicle as well as provide power to it. The key force behind the changes taking place in this windswept Dutch city is not a global market trend or the maturity of the engineering solutions.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter This isn’t the connection utility that lets you run some phone apps through the car’s screen; Android software actually powers the interfaces for phone, navigation, and other functions—including truly excellent voice recognition.

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2022 Audi e-tron S and e-tron S Sportback models coming to US this fall; prices start at $84,800

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Both the e-tron S and e-tron S Sportback can be equipped with Digital Matrix LED headlights as an option—another world first in mass production that Audi introduced with the e-tron Sportback in the fall of 2019. In-vehicle LTE-powered Wi-Fi for up to eight connected devices (requires subscription). Each light is divided into 1.3

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