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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. Volvo’s first EV.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. In 2019, human rights lawyers. But that was an unusual year.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Andreas Goldthau, Kirsten Westphal, Morgan Bazilian & Michael Bradshaw (2019) “Model and manage the changing geopolitics of energy” Nature 569, 29-31 doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01312-5.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

Cars That Think

Running a startup isn't cheap. BoxBlox's customers include Boeing , Google , and Tesla as well as NASA and NOAA. Rajanna developed an earlier version of the technology in collaboration with colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , where he was a visiting researcher in 2019 and 2020.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

Cars That Think

But the cheap computers that supplanted expert systems turned out to be a boon for the connectionists, who suddenly had access to enough computer power to run neural networks with many layers of artificial neurons. Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio eventually won the 2019 Turing Award and are sometimes called the godfathers of deep learning.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | Mid 2021

Plug In India

Ather is the only scooter which has a touchscreen display with google maps integration. The PluginIndia team visited them in 2019 and we were very impressed by the startup who were working on battery packs, BMS, electronic components, etc. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter.

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