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J.D. Power study: EV consideration in US increasing, but slowly; availability of public chargers a friction point

Green Car Congress

A resounding effort to build out and improve the public charging infrastructure will emphatically increase EV purchase consideration. Power Nearly half (49%) of shoppers rejecting the idea of buying an EV say their primary reason is a lack of charging station availability. New York ranks second in “very likely” at 33.7%.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

But if you want it, it's there—as long as you're able to afford it, of course. Connectivity usually comes at a premium, and it also usually involves buying a brand new whatever it is, because new hardware and software and services are required. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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Surfing the Metaverse’s Real Estate Boom

Cars That Think

Buying the DAO’s token grants rights to influence decisions, often in proportion with ownership, though the specifics vary between groups. The purpose of a metaverse DAO might seem straightforward: Buying gives you a stake in the metaverse even if you can’t afford a plot—right? But is the demand truly sustainable?

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Tesla Van, revised Cybertruck, Tesla Boat — Here’s what could be coming

Teslarati

” While a Tesla Van might be a great idea for some personal applications, this would be something that would undoubtedly be used as a commercial vehicle. “If it turns out nobody wants to buy a weird-looking truck, we’ll build a normal truck, no problem,” he said.

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The worst thing about owning an electric vehicle in Australia isn’t getting any better. In fact, it’s getting worse | Opinion

EV Central

Ampol is getting on board, gradually, by putting chargers on its forecourts, and the ROI on people buying expensive coffee and chocolate while they wait 30 to 45 minute for a charge might be tempting, but service stations only have so much space, and the real estate they’re on tends to be expensive.

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Opinion: Tesla and India is the right thing at the wrong time

Teslarati

Any person with any sort of knowledge about India and cars knows that it is an expensive place to own one, especially if it was not built there. It would only be able to do this by building them in Fremont, California, Austin, Texas, Brandenburg, Germany, or Shanghai, China , and then shipping them to India.

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Taycan review, Equinox EV deal, R1T top safety, 70-mile PHEVs: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Nissan Surf-Out concept Within last week’s 2030 plan presented by Nissan, emphasizing more affordable EVs , the automaker said that it will pair with Mitsubishi for the joint development of a Nissan Frontier pickup replacement in EV and PHEV forms. Now, GM reportedly seeks a similar deal with CATL. And instead it’s planning more hybrids.

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