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Drive Electric Week starts Saturday Sept. 25 with online and in-person events

Electrek

Drive Electric Week kicks off this Saturday with over 200 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles. Events will be held for the next two weekends, from September 25th through October 3rd. This is the event’s 11th year. This year, there are some events in Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

Cars That Think

This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. This time, people care.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk expected to become the world’s richest person again

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to be well on his way toward recapturing the title of the world’s wealthiest person by net worth. As Tesla shares dropped in 2022, Elon Musk, who was then listed as the world’s wealthiest person by net worth, was overtaken by Arnault. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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2 million people watched the Tesla Semi Delivery event on Twitter

Teslarati

Tesla always live streams its events on its YouTube channel, and its Cyber Rodeo event topped 3 million views. Aside from YouTube influencers who held their own live-streamed watch parties for the delivery events and Tesla’s own channel, many watched the event right on Twitter. elonmusk Oh.

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After a long hiatus, EV test drive events are back

Plug in America

For many years, Plug In America has been giving consumers the opportunity to test drive and learn about electric vehicles through National Drive Electric Week, Drive Electric Earth Day, and EV ride and drive events throughout the year. With the advent of COVID-19, we quickly pivoted and successfully transitioned nearly all events online.

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Getting the personal story `

Electric Auto Association

Only an owner knows for sure… Sometimes queries come to the chapter—generally from NBEAA’s website or at EV display events—that are so specific that only an owner of the vehicle in question can answer. “A During the pandemic, meetings were switched to online, and for the most part, have yet to return.

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Ford is making car parts out of olive trees [video]

Baua Electric

Ford is combining olive branches and twigs with recycled plastic in a pilot to make auto parts – and the results are looking promising. The prototype parts consisted of 40% olive tree fibers and 60% recycled polypropylene plastic. The substance was heated and injection molded into the shape of the part. Get started here. –ad*

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