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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

The handling vs comfort balance has been well applied by Kia’s chassis techs, so highway cruising’s quite cushy, aside from some marked road noise. It will go on sale sooner than the larger Kia EV5 , which was revealed in production form at the same event. Bit of body roll due to its loftiness, mind.

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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Huawei Technologies has two huge booths at this week’s event, and there are at least seven Chinese automakers touting its Qiankun installed in their cars as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date.

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Opinion: Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate is Misguided Overreach

The Truth About Cars

I test a lot of cars -- there's a new ride in my garage almost every week of the year, plus what I test on first drives and at events staged for media to get a sampling of new product. If the driver behind is following too closely and not paying attention and/or not driving a vehicle with collision-avoidance tech, there could be a problem.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

The Truth About Cars

It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. Smith also saw tech as a way for GM to move toward the future. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap.

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Voltage surge and transient suppression in EV chargers

Charged EVs

Clamping devices automatically reset after a surge event, then, but have to withstand extremely high peak wattages (from the product of their high breakdown voltage and the surge current).

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. The tech isn’t there for anyone.

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NIU’s newest electric scooters arrive at EICMA 2021

Green Authority

The model featured at the event showcased a single-speed belt-drive and a 250W Bafang hub motor setup; however, the model coming to North America will likely have a 500W motor instead. NIU has a smartphone app that will integrate with the BQi, allowing it to access additional smart security and tech features.