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The Paris Olympics Promise to Be Stunning. The Prices Already Are.

Baua Electric

Nonstop flights on Expedia.com from New York to Paris start at around $1,300 the weekend before the Olympics, up from an average of $1,000 last summer. Another option is to fly into an alternate airport, either in France or a nearby country like Belgium, Britain or Germany, and take a train.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

A pre-production XC40 Recharge I drove for an hour last October through rolling suburban hills outside New York City drew little attention, perhaps due to its muted, elegant silvery-green color and black roof. Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. High ambitions for low CO 2.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. Here the king [middle] is shown with Robin Berg [left], founder of We Drive Solar, and Jerôme Pannaud [right], Renault's general manager for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

Cars That Think

Dawn and I used Perplexity as an on-demand travel guide throughout our tour of the Flemish region of Belgium and Northern France. The chatbot-based, generative-search startup was founded in 2022 and backed by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and New Enterprise Associates , among others. Next: “Where can I buy distilled water near me right now?” (In

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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine

Cars That Think

So perhaps you could take me through this technology, which is called extreme ultraviolet, which sounds like a soda I might buy, but yeah. I saw one of them being put together at a fab in upstate New York about five years ago. And this was written by Jan van Schoot. Moore: Sorry. Well, they could have called it soft X-rays.

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