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The Polestar 4 Gets Big Power but No Back Window

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Bi-directional charging is standard, allowing the Polestar 4 to charge other EVs and external power equipment.& The automaker said it designed the interior with more common base materials to reduce waste.& inch touchscreen comes standard, running on Google’s Android Automotive OS. second 0-60 mph time. & A 15.4-inch

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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. Gravity’s power cabinets can be installed up to 500 feet away.) Google Ventures led a successful seed funding round for an undisclosed amount for Gravity in November 2023. So is people’s time.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global. The EV ARC is not just a portable charging station—it’s an off-grid solar power system and stationary storage device that offers EV charging as an option. I would never have thought of that. And the thing is, you end up owning it.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. 440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. And modern spacecraft need more power than an RTG of reasonable size can provide. At nearly 1.4

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Transphorm closes $25 Million in Series D funding

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GaN (gallium nitride) power electronics provider Transphorm Inc. a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. This brings the total capital raised from all rounds to $63 million.

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GaN company Transphorm raises $35M; Japanese firms lead round; business alliance for commercialization

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GaN (Gallium nitride) power conversion company Transphorm Inc. Today’s strategic financing, coupled with the earlier investments, enables scaling of this disruptive technology and helps eliminate energy waste in multiple markets from servers to solar panels, from HVACs to hybrids. —Umesh Mishra, CEO of Transphorm.

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VW CEO Diess criticizes hydrogen cars for the climate: ‘Please listen to the science!’

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Citing a report from German media outlet Handelsblatt , Diess said that hydrogen-powered vehicles have been proven not to be as environmentally conscious as they once were thought to be. Diess said (via Google Translate): “The hydrogen car is proven NOT to be the solution. Sham debates are a waste of time.

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