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2022 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin Ultimate – Not Quite Fully Charged

The Truth About Cars

On paper, the 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin Ultimate seems like a fine compact EV. I couldn’t think of a use case where needing to be in the driver’s seat with the key on your person would inconvenience you except for a scenario where a driver runs into a store and leaves passengers to play with the radio. And it looks cool.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. milliwatts.

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In the driver’s seat of driverless cars – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Elon Musk ‘s vision for personal mobility is cars running on clean fuel and driving themselves. He has got the fuel bit right with battery-operated Tesla cars recharging on electricity generated from solar or nuclear energy (revealed last year in the ‘nuclear diamond battery’).

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

And if we could reduce or eliminate that problem, how would that actually influence the development of mobile and wearable tech beyond just not having to recharge as often? We just recharge this small rechargeable battery indoor and outdoor, just continues to charge all the time. It’s not the best tech.

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CES 2023 Preview: A Stick-on-the-Wall TV, A Covid Breath Test, and More

Cars That Think

I’m traveling today to Las Vegas for the in-person CES 2023. And I will be looking for the gadgets on the other end of that spectrum of utility, as in, “This problem really isn’t looking for a tech solution.” In no particular order, here are a few of the gadgets I’m planning to check out in person.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

The 25 experiments address four global megatrends—explosive population growth; an expanding middle class; air quality and public health concerns; and changing customer attitudes and priorities—challenging today’s transportation model and limiting personal mobility, especially in urban areas. Rapid Recharge & Share, Dearborn.

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Driven: Alfa Romeo Tonale Plug-in Hybrid Q4

EV Central

In Australia, as elsewhere in the world, the Tonale Plug-in Hybrid Q4’s most obvious PHEV competitor will be the Volvo XC40 Recharge Hybrid. These numbers easily beat the XC40 Recharge Hybrid’s figures, and will be an important part of Alfa’s sales pitch to European private customers and fleet buyers.

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