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This small curbside EV charger can deliver 200 miles of range in 13 minutes

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Photo: Gravity Google-backed Gravity’s new curbside DC fast charger is no bigger than a Level 2 charger, but it’s 30 times faster. If cities install slow, outdated chargers at the curb, they’re wasting people’s time and blocking the ability to fully utilize the latent potential in parked EV batteries.” So is people’s time.

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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

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Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 Wendy Schmidt is president of The Schmidt Family Foundation, Founder of the Foundation’s 11 th Hour Project and Climate Central, as well as Co-founder, with her husband Eric (CEO of Google), of the Schmidt Marine Science Research Institute. million prize purse.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. Progress has also been made in the area of personalization.

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Volkswagen showcases inductive charging w/ “power lift”, autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities & gesture control at CES

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If a mapped charging station is difficult to access, does not support the required plug system, is defective or does not exist at all, this would lead to time being wasted. A person logs onto the system by spreading the fingers of a hand, preventing unintentional activation of a function with a hand movement. million colors.

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What is Home energy management system, why it is needed

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Benefits of Data Analytics and Monitoring in Energy Management: Improved Efficiency: Identify and address inefficiencies in energy systems, leading to reduced waste and optimized resource utilization. Nest products integrate with HEMS for comprehensive home automation.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. You have waste heat, much less of it than a turbine because of higher efficiency, but still you need to get rid of it. Personal vehicles are the worst possible transportation use case for hydrogen.

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New BMW 3 Series includes a new 4-cylinder TwinPower Turbo, 8-speed automatic and start-stop; ActiveHybrid 3 model in 2012

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The new BMW 3 Series Sedan is equipped as standard with an Auto Start-Stop function, which automatically switches off the engine during short stops at traffic lights or in stationary traffic, so as not to waste fuel. In addition, passengers can access their personal music library on their smartphone or music player inside the car.

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