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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

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Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. Electrek’s Take Without electricity, Google is nothing, and it uses an insane amount of power. million in tax revenue over 35 years.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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It is also known as Self driving electric vehicle. What is a Self-driving electric vehicle? We would say electric vehicles are not a revolutionary invention but autonomous vehicles (self-driving electric vehicle). Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric? Does that kind of a vehicle exist?

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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2023 Honda Accord features fourth-generation two-motor hybrid system; hybrids to account for 50% of sales

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The 11 th -generation 2023 Honda Accord will feature an available fourth-generation two-motor hybrid-electric system that’s more responsive for a sporty, exhilarating driving experience. The hybrid-electric system also is more responsive and significantly more refined at highway speeds. Under the hood of the LX and EX, Accord’s 1.5-liter

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Google to sponsor NASA Green Flight Challenge

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The CAFE Foundation announced that Google will sponsor the NASA Centennial Challenge flight competition known as the Green Flight Challenge (GFC). The aircraft in the Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google represent a diverse mix of singular prototypes created expressly for the competition by some of the world’s top designers.

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First drive in the Maserati Grecale Folgore SUV: Italian luxury is going all-electric and we love it

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Italian luxury automaker Maserati is now entering its fourth year of its 100% electric strategy and sits on the precipice of launching its second BEV model – the Grecale Folgore SUV. In 2020, Maserati shared a five-year strategy to transition to BEVs, developing and selling all-electric versions of each one of its models.

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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

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Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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