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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

Green Car Congress

The Second California Partial Consent Decree would also require Volkswagen to pay ARB $25 million for ARB to spend on ZEV-related aspects of a vehicle replacement program in California in 2017 or later; and would require VW to pay about $41 million into the trust established under the 2.0 Green City. Brand-neutral public education.

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Volkswagen reaches agreement with US and California on 3.0L diesels; $225M to environmental remediation, $25M to CA ZEV

Green Car Congress

The Court has scheduled a status conference on 22 December for the parties to report on progress towards a resolution and set a deadline of 31 January 2017 for the parties to submit a formal agreement to the Court. Buy back or terminate the leases of approximately 20,000 affected 2009-2012 Model Year Volkswagen and Audi 3.0L

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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

To help you save days or weeks of research, here is our guide to using a tool like EV Life to simplify your journey to buy an electric car. If I use EV Life’s Road Trip calculator to drive from San Francisco to Portland in the Hyundai Kona, I can see that I’ll need to make three stops along the way to recharge and spend about $45 on fuel.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

You Can Buy Level 2 Today. Today, you can also buy Level 2 vehicles such as the Volvo XC90 with Intellisafe semi-autonomous capabilities such as lane keep, maintaining a safe distance from the car in front, and a 360-degree camera. Own a Level 3 in 2017. Soon, we will able to buy a Level 2 or Level 3 autonomous vehicles.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ I live in the city of San Francisco, and for almost a year now, I’ve been able to take rides after 10:30 PM and before 5:00 AM, if it’s not a foggy day—I’ve been able to take rides in a Cruise vehicle with no driver. They can be out with humans.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. Still a bit of a mystery. Good Looking Lines.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Cars That Think

It also states that neural data will be considered equivalent to a human organ—which would prohibit the buying or selling of such data. Yuste next convened a group of neuroscientists, clinicians, ethicists, and engineers to come up with ethical priorities for neurotechnology, which they published in a 2017 Nature paper.

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