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German minister Wissing starts international e-fuels dialogue

Green Car Congress

The German Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport Dr Volker Wissing launched an international e-fuels dialogue in Munich at the conference “ E-Fuels – Paving the Way for Clean Mobility ”. The aim is to consolidate international exchange. We need e-fuels to achieve our climate protection goals.

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Coming at you! Artificial Intelligence is disrupting electric car design – and Polestar is all-in

EV Central

The still-fresh Sino-Swedish EV brand nominates design as one of its three pillars – innovation and sustainability being the others – and it’s keen to pull every high-tech lever to bring cars to market sooner and stand out in an increasingly crowded and competitive electric car market. 2024 Polestar 4. The post Coming at you!

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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

Mindful of concerns about the technical feasibility of robotic in-space assembly of satellites, each an order of magnitude larger than the International Space Station, the Caltech team has been looking at very different approaches to space solar power. And your design avoids the need for robots to do major assembly of components in space?

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Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

Cars That Think

But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible. At the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in December, two groups of researchers suggest that silicon might not be the best answer. They settled on near terahertz radiation—specifically 0.26

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Electric Day Cruiser To Be Launched In December By Blue Innovation Group

CleanTechnica EVs

With all the bickering and arguing on social media about electric vehicles vs. gas and diesel-powered internal combustion engine cars, trucks, and SUVs, a person might get the idea that electrification of transportation is only for vehicles with wheels.

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Rolls-Royce eras in an all-electric plan by 2030, unveils Spectre EV

Teslarati

Now, the British Rolls-Royce will era in a fleet of all-electric vehicles by the end of the 2020s, planning to not only scrap combustion engines altogether but keep a legendary tradition of automobiles going under a new pretense: Make them sustainable. Rolls-Royce has had electric plans on its agenda for a decade.

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All You Need To Know About Electric Car Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

There are many benefits to owning an electric car, but anything that is good will have its downfalls. It will not be cheaper than what you have been used to paying for on a comparable internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. Plus, many insurance carriers have not embraced the idea. What You Can Do About the Cost.