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

Charged EVs

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally. This article appeared in Charged Issue 53 – January/February 2021 – Subscribe now. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option. Volvo’s first EV.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 The article was countered the next day by an AOSIS statement that its proposed mitigation path would be expected to temporarily result in average temperatures of slightly more than 1.5

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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