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Plug In America joins global alliance

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Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

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In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5 In May 2019, the EQC 400 4MATIC as a purely electric vehicle, was integrated into the ongoing series production of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. kWh/100 km) in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. Production of battery systems for the EQC started there in 2019.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. Satellite phones emit signals that are detectable from space: In 2019, Frontex issued a. In 2019, human rights lawyers. But that was an unusual year. million people. The present E.U.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas. The next step was to actually build it. published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2019. But such testing is time consuming and costly. percent to 1.4

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