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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

Vehicle-grid-integration [ 16 ] uses electric vehicles with low power bidirectional chargers to balance an electric smart grid, absorb and redistribute the renewable energy from intermittent sources such as solar and wind. 23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. We do all the paperwork.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The island has 40,000 inhabitants and an energy infrastructure characterised by a large proportion of wind energy. Within the project, researchers from IBM Denmark and from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory will develop smart technologies that synchronise the charging of the electric vehicles with the availability of wind in the grid.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 Dial into qualifying mode and you unleash the Kraken, maximizing the full 162-kW electric capability. Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second

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Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch

EV Central

The downside is the drive lasted only five laps of the Haunted Hills race track in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley on a day when the weather gods decided too much rain, wind and frigid air was never enough. Overall, the Cupra Born felt keen and tidy. We look forward to a road drive. 2023 Cupra Born. Talking point. 2023 Cupra Born.