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Fisker opens reservations for Ocean SUV; cost starts as low as $379/month

Green Car Congress

opened reservations for the Ocean electric luxury SUV, arriving in 2022, through its website and native mobile app—available globally on the App Store and Google Play store. The exact unveiling details will be announced in December 2019. Fisker Inc. Reservations are set at US$250 per vehicle and are fully refundable.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

As an EV, the 2021 Polestar 2 is a silent traveler, and the time on the road gave me the chance to test what is the world’s first in-vehicle application of an infotainment system powered by Android with Google apps and services built-in. Google in the car. Road Test: 2019 Jaguar I-Pace. Tech: Benchmarking the Model Y EV.

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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 Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. liter 4-cylinder engine and optional all-wheel drive.

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis G90 Performance

Clean Fleet Report

Connected Services links to Apple or Google phones, and the Homelink auto-dimming rear view mirror is an integrated transceiver (a transmitter and receiver) that can be programmed to activate radio frequency (RF) devices such as garage doors, estate/community gates, entry door locks, home/office lighting, security systems or other RF devices.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. But that was an unusual year. million people. percent to €543 million in 2021.

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Why OpenAI’s Codex Won’t Replace Coders

Cars That Think

Codex is based on GPT-3 , a revolutionary deep learning platform that OpenAI trained on nearly all publicly available written text on the Internet through 2019. Codex's creators suspect the system may "somewhat reduce the overall cost of producing software" by letting developers "write good code faster.

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How EV Charging Boosts Value at Commercial Real Estate

Blink Charging

Another report from IBM found that “84% of global consumers consider sustainability important when choosing a brand… And 62% of consumers now say they’re willing to change their purchasing behavior to help reduce the negative impact on the environment, up from 57% in 2019.”