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Study finds that EV-specific factors rather than socio-demographic variables better predictors of EV uptake

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Of those, charging infrastructure was the best predictor of a country’s EV market share. In other words, neither financial incentives nor charging infrastructure ensure high electric vehicle adoption rates. National charging infrastructure by country and corresponding EV market share for 2012. Source: Sierzchula et al.

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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These competitive advantages give them stronger insights into the market overall and into customer charging requirements. Furthermore, their ability to work from within the regulatory environment gives them significant power to change the policies governing their own ability to become active participants in the market.

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EC Survey finds majority of Europeans willing to compromise on performance, size, range and price to reduce vehicle emissions; 53% say they use car as main mode of transport

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Half of EU citizens said they would agree with existing car charges being replaced by new pay-as-you-drive schemes; almost a sixth (16%) of respondents agreed strongly with such a proposal. Car users were more likely to disagree with the replacement of existing car charges by pay-as-you-drive schemes (37% vs. 24% of public transport users).

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The ROM, which Charpentier and his group had designed years earlier, had a special pre-charging circuit to make it run faster, but the circuit made it sensitive to spurious signals. If you let marketing get involved with product definition, you’ll never get it done quickly," Yannes said. We didn’t even suspect it could be the ROM.

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