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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

Baua Electric

Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. Google’s Mesa data center will also draw clean power from the new 88 MW solar + storage Storey Energy Center in Coolidge, Arizona.

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Tata Safari SUV brings minor changes but major difference: Key tech highlights

Baua Electric

Here is a quick look at the advanced tech-driven features of the new Tata Safari SUV. The new Tata Safari comes with an audio package that comes paired with Alexa, in addition to the native built-in voice commands, Siri and Google commands as well. This ensures convenience for Safari owners of different heights.

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GMC Just Revealed the Larger, More Tech-Packed 2024 Acadia

The Truth About Cars

GMC’s midsize utility vehicle is getting an update for 2024, with increased exterior dimensions, updated tech, and a harder-core AT4 model with more off-road capability.& & Power comes from a turbocharged 2.5-liter Customizable displays, Google built-in, and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto come standard.

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Meet the cute, capable and affordable Renault 5 E-Tech. Will this reborn icon make Europe relevant in the electric car era?

EV Central

The 2025 Renault 5 E-Tech Electric has been unwrapped at the Geneva motor show and from our first look at the reborn French icon this could be one of the most desirable EVs not a lot of money can buy. The two lower-power outputs come with the 40kWh battery while the most powerful motor gets the larger 52kWh power pack.

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Qualcomm to supply chip to Renault for Megane E-Tech Electric

Electric Vehicles India

Qualcomm to supply chip to Renault for Megane E-Tech Electric. Qualcomm is the world’s biggest supplier of the key semiconductors in mobile phones and has been expanding into vehicles with chips that can power dashboards and infotainment systems at the same time in this kind of vehicle. . Mégane E-TECH Electric.

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J.D. Power: quality takes a back seat to innovation as problems reach a record high

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Power 2023 US Initial Quality Study (IQS) , the rise in problems is 12 PP100 greater than in 2022, which follows an increase of 18 PP100 in 2022 from 2021. Owners are having issues with high-tech approaches to this basic function; seven of the 10 most problematic models in this area are battery electric vehicles (BEVs).

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The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Gets Impressive Tech and a Six-Figure Starting Price

The Truth About Cars

The hulking luxury family hauler has been around since the late 1990s and has become a showcase for the automaker’s technology and design prowess, but GM is going electric, and a three-ton V8-powered SUV doesn’t fit with that vision. The system uses a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google built-in.