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CES 2024 Preview: A Tricorder, Magic Mirrors, and a Solar EV

Cars That Think

In this category, my things-to-look-at list includes new variations of spatial audio, more efficient solar cells and other energy harvesters, a neural network based on insect brains, and a silicon micromotor. This EV runs on solar Get around town in Squad Mobility’s plugless Solar Buggy. Do we really need a new way to cook?

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Centre, Maharashtra govt plan to expand PM Suryoday scheme in the state | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The Maharashtra and central governments have launched a centre-state pilot ‘Solar2EV Project for Social Justice,’ hoping to expand the reach of the PM Suryodaya Yojana, which seeks to install 1 crore rooftop solar panels. For this, the central ministry will dip into its Rs 14,500-crore budget, through which it funds all states.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

The late Jack Rickard of EVTV , a long time member of Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA), is something of a legend at the St. Solar charging on the agenda Jackie joined her father’s company not long before he became ill. Louis, Missouri chapter. His efforts lead to tremendous overall adoption and success.”

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Drive Electric Earth Day sets new records in attendance. Drive Electric Earth Day parade in Riverside, California. Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapters across the country participated in Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED ) throughout the month of April, and participation exceeded expectations seemingly everywhere.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We For the past two years, there’s been a whole lot more awareness and interest in electric vehicles (EVs),” Douglass continued. Showing a home-brew EV.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. Feet, pedals and electric motors only will make for a much more pleasant and greener event.

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New Zealand Cherry Farm Goes Electric

Teslarati

In a showing of modern industrial electrification, a New Zealand farm has not only gone off the grid but has electrified nearly all of its production equipment. kW electric one. Instead, they chose to invest in a solar array with a battery system that could power the pump and some of their own home.