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Back from Italy

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Hi All, I had a great time in Italy for the past month exploring all the historical ruins of several cities. The Civic-EV Google Group grew quite a bit while I was gone and several people have come out of the woodwork to help with this project, so I'm psyched to move forward.

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Porsche expanding Charging Service in Europe; more than 49,000 charging points

Green Car Congress

Alongside Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland, the charging service is now also available in Norway, France, Spain, Great Britain and Italy. A new feature offered by the Porsche Charging Service is a rating function.

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

EV Info

With research based entirely on Google Search records this can not be deemed as highly significant, however it’s good clean fun. average monthly Google searches each) and in Russia, the top spot is a tie between BMW and Mercedes-Benz. This help to show that BMW is more of a bank than a car company. Methodology.

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Google goes green

Green Cars News

It’s probably the most famous name on the internet - yes even ahead of TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk - and now Google is going green. The trike will begin its journey in Genoa, Italy, and then is expected to move on to Britain later this summer.

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First drive in the Maserati Grecale Folgore SUV: Italian luxury is going all-electric and we love it

Baua Electric

I got invited to Southern Italy to take the Grecale Folgore to the road (and off the road) to see if the famed automaker’s niche for power and luxury translates to the all-electric age. As the Grecale Folgore approaches the start of sales soon, Maserati invited media out to its native Italy to test out the SUV first-hand.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

Cars That Think

The video is recorded in Perugia Italy. [ Geoff joins Pieter Abbeel in our two-part season finale for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey from academia to Google Brain. The European Robocup Finals 2022, featuring Tech United vs VDL Robotsports. RSL ] ICRA 2023 is in London! Robot Brains ].

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VisLab: 3D computer vision for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Google’s vehicles rely on a lidar (laser radar) system. Dr. Alberto Broggi of the University of Parma and a spinoff company, VisLab , in Northern Italy believes 3D computer vision is an affordable and aesthetically acceptable way to capture much of the same data. The Google system has really precise maps ,” he notes.

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