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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. But Europe’s embraced EVs faster and more enthusiastically than we Aussies, so surely the charging infrastructure is more commonplace, reliable, cheaper and efficient? A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging. Charging is Easy!

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Audi Unveils the World’s First Luxury Lounge for EV Charging

Get Electric Vehicle

Audi strives to make charging your electric vehicle as pleasurable as possible. By the end of 2021, the premium auto brand Audi launched the “world’s first charging hub” in its native nation of Germany. Instead, the reservation-only hub has a comfortable lounge where you can unwind while your battery charges.

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Tips: 5 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Selling Your EV?

Clean Fleet Report

Independent sellers often don’t have a clear idea of their car’s value. The first thing you should do is research their auto’s book value. No two cars are the same, but you will get a good idea of your EV’s value by exploring the local marketplace. You need to let buyers know what they’re getting.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

Teslarati

“The whole idea was that I would have my house key in my left hand and my car key in my right hand. “You have to be within a few millimeters of the thing and realistically, hopefully, you’re not just walking through credit card terminals and brushing your hands against them during mid transactions.”

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. The system converted AC grid power to DC power to charge the battery and could also convert DC power from the battery to AC power that could feed both external stand-alone loads and the grid. Advocates believe that V2G can help pay for EV batteries.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

Cars That Think

I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a former Spectrum editor, Sally Adee, about her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome. But before that, a number of the researchers I spoke to for this book told me that they had started to see it in papers that they were reviewing.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. A question about bidirectional charging was also asked. It’s crazy how much has changed but most owners have no idea.

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