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Affordable EV incoming! Jeep locks in affordable electric SUV that will shock you with its price

EV Central

Announcing the cheap Jeep at a recent Bernstein investor conference, Tavares said the new $25k model would draw influence from the €20,000 ($A32,500) Citroen e-C3 the firm is currently developing for the European market, and that the same engineering tricks and component sourcing insights will dramatically lower the cost of the incoming SUV.

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Race to break the $30K barrier: Volkswagen will launch ID.1 budget-buy in 2027

EV Central

Volkswagen has confirmed it is hatching an all-new entry-level replacement for the Up city car that will be priced from less than €20,000 ($A33,000) when it arrives in 2027. To lower the cost of development, VW has already been rumoured to be plotting teaming up with car-makers like Renault, meaning the ID.1 Renault Twingo.

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People Will Buy Electric Cars If They're Cheap, Privileged, And Convenient

Green Car Reports

Electric cars may be growing in popularity, but they still make up just a tiny percentage of the U.S. If sales in Norway are any indication, that will happen when electric vehicles become inexpensive, easy to own, and confer certain privileges. auto market. When will things take off?

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

Cars That Think

He captained one of the university club’s teams that participated in the Micro Mouse competition held during the October IEEE Region 2 Student Activities Conference , hosted by Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. If we can make them cheap enough, we could get ham radio operators to set them up and increase data points.” “I

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Eat This Drone

Cars That Think

At the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ( IROS ) conference in Kyoto last week, researchers from EPFL presented a paper describing a drone that can boost its payload of food from 30 percent to 50 percent of its mass. It’s a process that’s fast, simple, and cheap.

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Nissan and Enel to launch major V2G trial in the UK; LEAF and e-NV200

Green Car Congress

The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016. —Paul Willcox, Chairman of Nissan Europe.

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