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Renault Group and Google partner on digital architecture for software-defined vehicles

Green Car Congress

Renault Group and Google announced an expanded partnership aimed at designing and delivering the digital architecture for the “Software Defined Vehicle” (SDV) and accelerating the group's digitalization.

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Ford and Google enter 6-year strategic partnership

Green Car Congress

Ford and Google announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the transformation of Ford’s customer experience. Ford also named Google Cloud its preferred cloud provider to leverage Google’s expertise in data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). These apps are optimized and integrated for in-vehicle use.

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Hyundai announces Evolve+ EV subscription program

Green Car Congress

Evolve+ is a month-to-month subscription service that covers 1,000 miles per month (additional mileage charges accrue for overage), insurance, maintenance, registration, and road-side assistance at a starting price of $699 per month for a Kona Electric and $899 per month for an IONIQ 5. It is a no haggling, stress-free delivery experience.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Cold Spray Manufacturing of High-Performance Magnets and Energy-Harvesting Materials, $300,000 TTEC LLC, Berryville, Va. Amesbury, Mass. Louisville, Colo. Louis , Mo. Tempe, Ariz.

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Should Parking Companies Create Their Own EV Charging Networks?

Blink Charging

Blink Charging is the only fully integrated EV charging company, from product design to manufacturing to sales to station management and customer support. Parking companies administering their own private networks would buy charging stations manufactured by a third-party company, then add their own network software to the station.

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Ford introduces North America’s largest electric vehicle charging network for its EV customers; Greenlots led buildout

Green Car Congress

Ford is offering its all-electric vehicle customers North America’s largest electric vehicle public charging network—the FordPass Charging Network—with more than 12,000 places to charge, including fast charging, and more than 35,000 charge plugs—more than any other automotive manufacturer. Ford says it is investing $11.5

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

As gas engine powertrains typically have 100 times the number of parts of an EV powertrain, I have only paid $300 for maintenance: comprising three tire rotations and one cabin air filter, after four years of ownership. My EV battery is warrantied for a minimum of 100K miles and eight years. I find that life with an EV is very convenient.