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RMI launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” with support from General Motors & Ford

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Initial funding of the VP3 effort was made possible by General Motors and Google Nest. VP3 includes founding members Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker.

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Review: 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST arrives for civilians

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That’s more than any other electric truck on the market, and it should reassure shoppers who can afford one that they won’t run out of range unexpectedly. No figures on the efficiency hit from towing were given, but the onboard navigation from Google takes into account any towing and adjusts range and charging stops accordingly.

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In the driver’s seat of driverless cars – ET Auto

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Elon Musk ‘s vision for personal mobility is cars running on clean fuel and driving themselves. Baidu, China’s answer to Google, has also moved ahead on lane navigation using data from the world’s largest fleet of EVs equipped with sensory capabilities to avoid collision.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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Regression analyses reveal that communities with higher proportions of essential workers, vulnerable populations (African American, Hispanic, Female, and people over 45 years old), and more coronavirus Google searches tend to maintain higher levels of minimal demand during COVID-19. —Liu et al. —Harvey Miller.

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Video Friday: Dark Side Spot

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Researchers and engineers at Google Research and Everyday Robots are working together to combine the best of machine learning language models with helper robots that can complete complex and abstract tasks like ‘cleaning up a spilled drink.’. What if there was a better way to communicate with learning robots so they can help us?

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

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As an EV, the 2021 Polestar 2 is a silent traveler, and the time on the road gave me the chance to test what is the world’s first in-vehicle application of an infotainment system powered by Android with Google apps and services built-in. Google in the car. The post Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2 first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Amazon to Acquire iRobot F?or $1.7 Billion

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Over many years, the iRobot team has proven its ability to reinvent how people clean with products that are incredibly practical and inventive—from cleaning when and where customers want while avoiding common obstacles in the home, to automatically emptying the collection bin. Which, to be fair, seems like a heck of a lot of money.

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