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NIO's 1st NIO House in Netherlands to open on Mar 23

CN EV Post

NIO's first NIO House in the Netherlands will officially open on March 23 local time, according to a post by Ruben Keuter, general manager of NIO Netherlands, published today on the company's mobile app. On October 18, NIO said it made the first ET7 deliveries in Germany and the Netherlands. The EL7 is known as the ES7 in China.

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Sixt to buy up to 250,000 Stellantis cars – ET Auto

Baua Electric

German car rental group Sixt said Tuesday it has agreed to buy up to 250,000 cars from automaker Stellantis in a “multi-billion euro” deal that includes electric vehicles. Electric vehicles will be included, but the statement didn’t provide any specifics.

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Volkswagen claims the title of biggest EV charging network in Europe

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Volkswagen’s EV charging infrastructure growth is a huge step in the right direction, especially considering that range anxiety and charger anxiety are some of car shoppers’ most prevalent concerns when considering buying an electric vehicle. What do you think of the article? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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NITI Aayog bats for incentives for LNG-fuelled commercial vehicles – ET Auto

Baua Electric

This will help lower carbon dioxide emissions and contribute towards the national goal of a gas-based economy by increasing the share of natural gas in the primary energy mix to 15% by 2030, it said in its report jointly prepared with the embassy of Netherlands.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. The world’s largest bike parking facility, Stationsplein Bicycle Parking near Utrecht Central Station in Utrecht, Netherlands has 12,500 parking places.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

Cars That Think

Back in the 1970s, when antilock braking systems—the original active safety feature—started to become common, customers rushed to buy it as an option because they loved the way it stopped the car on slick pavement. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Brakes That Slam Themselves.”. Mandates aren’t the only way.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” Zenith enters the TV receiver business, buying Rauland of Chicago, a picture tube manufacturer. Admiral buys Cortron, leaving 17 U.S. TV makers left after Philips buys GTE Sylvania.) It appeared in the August 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.