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

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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. Every carmaker should do this immediately.

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

Cars That Think

I saw one of them being put together at a fab in upstate New York about five years ago. But the knob that they are turning with this newest machine that is currently being built in Belgium right now is to increase the numerical aperture. Now, the mask is where you store the pattern. The thing weighs like 180 tons.

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is one approach being taken, where stored energy from the electric vehicles is used to power the grid during peak hours, and then the vehicles are recharged during non-peak times. In fact, EDF is targeting a 30 percent market share for EV charging in France, Belgium, Italy, and the UK.