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

Charged EVs

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option. Volvo’s first EV. Late last year, Volvo launched its very first all-electric model in North America.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. C, is warranted.”. Required rates of decarbonization with the potential to.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

Part of the reason for its success is the price, which keeps falling—from $595 at its introduction to $149 currently, for which the consumer gets graphics and sound equal to or better than that provided by machines that cost five times as much. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. It’s only sand.”

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