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GM expands access of OnStar Vehicle Insights telematics solution to non-GM vehicles

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Once the connection to the adapter is established to the vehicle and to the OnStar Vehicle Insights mobile app or website, fleet managers can begin receiving valuable vehicle insights on the OnStar Vehicle Insights platform, designed to lower the cost of vehicle maintenance while keeping their fleets up and running.

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Siemens, Duke Energy and Ford demonstrate lower cost home smart charging technology for plug-ins; due on market next year

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million in development funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research aimed at significantly reducing the current costs of electrical vehicle (EV) chargers and developing “smart” charging capabilities that support power grid efficiency and consumer demand. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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‘We built a profitable model without subsidy on battery or scooter’: Yulu’s Amit Gupta | Autocar Professional

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Without subsidy on battery or on the scooter, we have built this profitable model,” he said at the Inner Circle event organised by Autocar Professional in collaboration with AutoDesk. Gupta spoke about how their product never qualified for a subsidy.

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Arcimoto CEO Mark Frohnmayer on MLM Cybertrike (Part 2)

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” Here, Mark is referring to word-of-mouth marketing which is something that has served Tesla well. event that Arcimoto held in February, Mark made a very critical point about the weight of other EVs and the use of materials–especially since we are having supply chain constraints. Every one of our customers will sell them.”

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UAW to hunt greater than 40% salary good points from Detroit 3, assets say

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The union this moment delivered its record of monetary proposals to Ford, Basic Motors and Stellantis, which Fain referred to as the “most audacious and ambitious” prepared of calls for in a long time, together with the recovery of pensions, cost-of-living changes and a “working family protection plan” similar to the previous (..)

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SpaceX to launch ninth batch of Iridium NEXT satellites

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When SpaceX completed its eighth and (at the time) final Iridium launch in January 2019, the communications provider was left with nine NEXT satellite spares in orbit and six spares on the ground – all ready to take over (or be launched) in the event of an anomaly. billion – have proven exceptionally reliable.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. In past comments, the CEO noted that the “investors” Tesla is referring to in the event are pretty much all life on Earth.

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