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Porsche expanding Charging Service in Europe; more than 49,000 charging points

Green Car Congress

In addition, the user interface in the app and the navigation function have been improved: After selecting a charging point, it is now easier to switch to navigation via Google Maps, whether on a smartphone or via Apple CarPlay in the vehicle. Registration is possible via www.porsche.com/connect-store.

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moovel Group and SSB launching new mobility service in Stuttgart

Green Car Congress

The service will then start with the SSB as operating company under the name “SSB Flex” in the first half of 2018. The “Flex Pilot” app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. The service with the SSB as operating company will then be launched in the first half of 2018.

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Daimler Mobility AG & Geely Technology Group inaugurate ‘StarRides’ premium ride-hailing service in Hangzhou

Green Car Congress

p>Customers can download the StarRides App in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Inaugural services by StarRides follows a year of development and planning by Daimler Mobility and Geely Technology Group, which unveiled the project in October 2018.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

Green Car Congress

Regression analyses reveal that communities with higher proportions of essential workers, vulnerable populations (African American, Hispanic, Female, and people over 45 years old), and more coronavirus Google searches tend to maintain higher levels of minimal demand during COVID-19. —Liu et al. —Harvey Miller.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

In 2018, a U.K. With US companies barred from doing business with Huawei, Google could no longer license its Android operating system—the operating system that runs most of the world's phones—to Huawei. So the U.S. As a result, Huawei, which was briefly the largest smartphone supplier in the world, has dropped out of the top five.

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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

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen AG has set the goal of becoming the world’s most sustainable carmaker by the year 2018. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.) It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. These settings will be stored in user accounts for individual drivers. Interactive systems.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 30% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels—the balance (~70%) literally goes up in smoke. I love that my EV is so efficient: EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels.