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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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May 2023 – Germans love the domestic Tesla Model Y

Push EVs

In my view, now that PHEVs are not receiving funds from the public purse, those who continue to buy them are presumably likely to be doing so for the running costs savings. The “Smart #1” climbed to a new personal-best volume of 497 units (from previous best, 313 units in March), and may perhaps enter the monthly top 2o soon.

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The Frunk Puppy movement has been uniting the global EV community for 4 years.

Teslarati

” “Early on, we had winners who had Nissan LEAFs and that grew over time where Lucid wrote ‘#FrunkPuppy’ and posted a photo with a dog in their frunk on Instagram. “I would like to have more participation across brands which I think will happen as more people buy EVs. I think that’s so cool.”

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

The Truth About Cars

It looked into 25 popular brands representing a majority of the vehicles people tend to buy and determined that none of them are seriously interested in protecting your privacy. Our main concern is that we can’t tell whether any of the cars encrypt all of the personal information that sits on the car. Though they weren’t all equal.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But in recent months new players, including the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Daimler AG and battery maker Electrovaya , have come onto the scene as well — making China look more and more likely to give electric cars a strong push into the mass market. Nissan announced plans in November to start selling electric cars in the country by 2012.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

For our EV advocacy, which will benefit Indian cities and the Indian economy in the long run, we have received abuse and personal attacks. In India, even though it is not an electric car, the OLA electric scooter got bookings worth Rs 1,100 CR. In 2026, you will be able to buy an electric car with 500 km range at decent prices.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

That means Kia—not Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, or any other maker—will bring the first electric SUV under $60,000 to the US market with a third row usable by almost any passenger. Order books were originally scheduled to open in November, but Volvo has delayed that to the early part of this year—with first customer deliveries in the U.S.

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