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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Tips for Electric Cars To Navigate the Cold Stuff. Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, but they can pose some challenges in the winter. Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle. Electric vehicles offer many benefits: they reduce our dependence on oil, eliminate tailpipe emissions and help to save money.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

Green Car Congress

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. The Group already offers the widest range of electromobility solutions in the automotive industry as well, with nine battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever.

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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

Baua Electric

If there’s an electric motorcycle, e-bike, scooter, or anything else remotely rideable out there, I’ve probably thrown a leg over it at least once. I’m talking faster machines, like my 60 MPH Gogoro electric scooter. And yes, I know about degloving accidents (please don’t google that). I’m not talking cute little Razor scooters.

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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

Green Car Congress

Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

Late last year, Volvo launched its very first all-electric model in North America. It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. That’s partly due to the weight; the electric XC40 is a whopping 900 pounds heavier than the AWD gasoline version.

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The Workplace Charging Challenge

Plugs and Cars

After numerous awards and accolades, it seems fair to say that the best luxury car is an electric car. The electric Infiniti has been “postponed,” and BMW is entering the market with a car that doesn’t challenge Tesla. Providing a conventional 120V outlet is cheap and familiar. It’s also grid-friendly. They should be encouraged.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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