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Audi equipping new models in Europe with Audi connect SIM

Green Car Congress

Audi is now equipping its new models that use the second-generation modular infotainment platform with Audi connect SIM. With the factory-installed SIM card, customers can immediately use the wide range of Audi connect services with the accompanying data flat rate for up to three years. Other model series will follow.

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Yay or Nay? Volvo Launches Accident Ahead Alert Service

The Truth About Cars

This is in tandem with allowing connected Volvo products to communicate information with each other. This would presumably offer more frequent data points than having to rely entirely on connected Volvos and government traffic hubs — depending on how the latter party monitors their roads.&

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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

The Truth About Cars

Tim Babbitt, GM's head of product for infotainment, said the following to MT: “CarPlay and Android Auto have stability issues that manifest themselves as bad connections, poor rendering, slow responses, and dropped connections. Apps that are currently available in CarPlay and Android Auto.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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More Than 1,800 EV chargers installed under Recovery Act

Green Car Congress

Since 2009, DOE has invested more than $5 billion in grants and loans to spur the growth of the US electric vehicle and advanced battery manufacturing industry. Additionally, DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is joining with Google Inc. New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.; Sacramento, Calif.;

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A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened

Baua Electric

But Google Earth shows that the intersection is relatively flat and wide with a bike lane – and that the accident happened in broad daylight, at around 3 p.m. Plus a new bill is in the California Legislature that would grant cities and counties the authority to regulate or ban altogether companies like Waymo.

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Where to locate public chargers?

Electric Auto Association

Public utilities are beginning to launch EV charger rebate programs that are additive to the VW settlement grant program funds. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected). Congress has passed a bipartisan Infrastructure bill that includes $7.5

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