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FreeWire Technologies raises $125M in Series D; battery-integrated ultrafast EV charging stations

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The financing consists of a Senior Convertible Note provided exclusively by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. Construction of the facility is underway and will be fully operational by Summer 2022, putting FreeWire at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation technology hub.

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FCA US reaches settlements on diesel emissions at estimated cost of $800M

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The settlements are now lodged with the San Francisco division of the United States District Court, North District of California, where they await judicial approval. Each current and former owner and lessee of these vehicles will be eligible to receive a payment averaging $2,800 as part of the plaintiff steering committee settlement.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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In 2009, Levandowski used an autonomous vehicle to deliver a pizza through the streets of San Francisco. Google’s fleet of converted Priuses have travelled more than 250,000 miles in autonomous mode and Google believes they’ll need to covered closer to one million miles before the technology can be released onto the market.

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Volkswagen launching E-Golf BEV test fleet in the US; partnering with Solazyme and Amyris on renewable diesel fuels

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The E-Golf pilot program will take place in the Detroit Metro, San Francisco, and Washington DC markets, beginning in April. For the US, we also have to recognize the specific legal regulations as well as the different characteristics of the electricity supply: both the reduced 110-volt mains supply and the type of charging plugs.

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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

Long recognized as an EV hotbed alongside our brethren Seattle and San Francisco, Portland never disappoints when it’s time to round up and roll out. Hometown hero John Wayland and the one and only White Zombie - the world’s quickest street legal electric drag racing car - headlined the display.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

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Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Acceleration is beyond what can be safely and legally used on the local roads and freeway we traversed, but the precision of the handling was also evident. Lucid says one is coming soon.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. (Other page description languages are optimized for one of these purposes, not both.) What’s NeXT?

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