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Forget light poles, British firm to build chargers from cable boxes

Green Car Reports

The company, which owns Virgin Media, plans to start a pilot project using Virgin Media's cables and trenches that run to thousands of neighborhoods around Britain. At least British broadband provider Liberty Global hopes so. Since they already have power, Liberty Global says they.

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Audi and Somerville, Mass to partner on urban mobility; swarm intelligence and automated parking, networking cars with traffic lights

Green Car Congress

Audi will work with the city of Sommerville, Massachusetts to develop an urban strategy for Somerville, applying technologies for swarm intelligence or automated parking, and networking cars with traffic lights. Therefore Audi is supporting the project at Union Square with innovations such as the traffic-light assistant.

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Tiny Eli Zero urban EV priced at $11,990, goes up to 90 miles—slowly

Baua Electric

It’s taking $200 refundable deposits to secure a build slot; sales for 2024 will be limited to these reservation-holders. feet long, the aluminum two-seat Eli Zero is classified as a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) in the U.S. Eli Zero The company now plans to start U.S. Measuring just 4.5 feet wide and 7.4

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Chacarita Is Buenos Aires’s Quirkiest Neighborhood. Get There Soon.

Baua Electric

To become a city’s coolest new neighborhood, there are certain prerequisites: a crop of cafes that toe the line between cozy and snobbish, chefs combining the innovative with the Instagrammable, and shops so sincere that they are doomed to close when rents rise, which they inevitably will. But then it must also have quirks.

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AllCell Receives $460K Li-ion battery manufacturing grant Through Illinois Energy Plan

Green Car Congress

AllCell plans to increase production capacity for lithium-ion batteries at the company’s manufacturing facility in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. electric scooters, electric bikes, and neighborhood electric vehicles). According to AllCell co-founder and CEO Said Al-Hallaj, the state’s support was well-timed. “We

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Retraining Electricians to Install EV Charging Stations – Verde Energy Efficiency Experts

EV Match

We need to physically be in a space to see what we can recommend and install – which is commercial and public building energy efficiency upgrades. . EVmatch charging station near Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. While we survived as a business, our ability to sell our product was significantly impacted. ” .

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Tesla Virtual Power Plant is providing energy security to Australian homes

Teslarati

A few years ago, Tesla teamed up with the Government of South Australia and various energy authorities to build South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant. “Even if all lights go out in the neighborhood, you will still have power. So that gives people energy security.

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