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BMW’s iVision Dee Brings Sci-Fi to the Driveway

Cars That Think

Before I met BMW’s iVision Dee at a press preview event in Germany— prior to a public reveal at CES in Las Vegas last week—I’d never seen a car blush, let alone had one make me blush. Excited by low current—15 volts and less than 100 milliamperes—the panels’ microencapsulated particles create a moveable e-paper display.

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BMW’s iVision Dee Brings Sci-Fi to the Driveway

Cars That Think

Before I met BMW’s iVision Dee at a press preview event in Germany— prior to a public reveal at CES in Las Vegas last week—I’d never seen a car blush, let alone had one make me blush. Excited by low current—15 volts and less than 100 milliamperes—the panels’ microencapsulated particles create a moveable e-paper display.

BMW 71
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Flash Drive: 2023 Kia EV6 GT

Clean Fleet Report

Clean Fleet Report spent several hours on a beautiful December Las Vegas day driving the 2023 Kia EV6 GT. After driving on pubic streets and highways, we headed to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and its 1.1-mile, kW onboard charger can charge up to 800 volts. Now as fast as it looks. Quick and Fast. On the Track.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The basic equation governing the charging of batteries is W = V * A, or to put it into words, Watts equals Volts times Amps. I like to use the example of someone driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The cost of putting these on major freeways would be very high but the technology already exists.