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Wallbox introduces home energy management solutions for EV drivers in the US

Green Car Congress

Wallbox has launched Eco-Smart and Power Boost, the company’s first home energy management features available for EV drivers in the US. Eco-Smart and Power Boost come standard with Pulsar Plus, the smallest available smart home EV charger in North America, capable of 48Amp (11.5kW) charging.

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

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Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle. Arming yourself with an emergency car kit can help give you peace of mind if you happen to get stranded in the elements. It should include items such as granola bars, a reflective blanket, rope or cordage and a first aid kit. Plan your Route Ahead of Time.

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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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By mashing up real-time data provided by the car with the vast quantities of real-time and historical data available online developers can detect patterns and deliver products, services and experiences that are tailored to a market size of one.

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Ford Launches Cool Off-Road App Only for Its Owners

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Simply downloading the app onto one’s device permits the use of trail maps, waypoint system, or navigation kit. Yes, yes – concerns about privacy and OEMs harvesting your data; tinfoil hats are available in the cupboard over the fridge, okay? The Bronco Trail App is available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked

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To make it easier for stores to track inventory, startup Wisy developed an AI platform that uses image recognition to detect which products are out of stock or running low, as well as those that are available but haven’t yet been put on display. “We The service itself has the power to process data and produce results in milliseconds.

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How to Plan Summer Travel with an EV

Blink Charging

Find EV charging stations along the way The good news is that it should be relatively easy to find charging stations along your route thanks to tools like the Blink Charging Mobile App , PlugShare, Google Maps, and Apple Maps which show you available chargers in the area you specify. Charging (to 80%).

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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

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But, impressive as that feat is, an even more significant chip design development by the Chinese tech giant may be making available the source code to a RISC-V CPU core its own engineers designed. Meanwhile, there are already several other open-source RISC-V cores available on the Internet. s latest instruction set architecture.

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