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2024 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor review: Better, but good enough?

Baua Electric

I’d never driven an EV in Germany before. Its 82 kWh battery is rated for 655 km on the very generous WLTP cycle, and it is one of the longest-range EVs on sale in Germany today. So long as you have a Google account and a smartphone (yes, including an iPhone), setup takes under a minute. It is just so easy.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. From these scenarios, the authors derice a set of lessons: The falling costs of technology will deliver a low-carbon world.

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SSB Flex mobility service launches in Stuttgart on 1 June

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SSB Flex is the first on-demand service in Germany approved by the Stuttgart Regional Council as a regular passenger service under the German Passenger Transportation Act ( Personenbeförderungsgesetz – PBefG ). SSB vehicle drivers are either specially trained Flex drivers or SSB bus drivers who have received additional training.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

Cars That Think

His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet. I do not make the assertion, I pose the question.”

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

Cars That Think

That’s because the cost of sending payloads, including imaging satellites, into orbit has dropped drastically. High-resolution satellite images, which used to cost tens of thousands of dollars, now can be had for the price of a cup of coffee. Maxar and Planet in the United States and Airbus in Germany.

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2020 EV Charging Infrastructure Best-in-Test: Rating the DC fast charging user experience

Charged EVs

After performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland earlier this year, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market, and together we developed the new 2020 EV Charging Infrastructure Best-in-Test award. The study evaluated the price structure and transparency of each network.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It ispleasingly quick but will still only manage 150 miles between charges, muchless than a tank of petrol, even if it costs only £1.50 Their solution to the cost of thenew-generation batteries is to separate them from the car itself. to charge overnight. The electric Mini is unlikely to go into production in its present form.