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Renault and ADA launch the ‘Moov’in.Paris by Renault’ application; car-sharing for EVs

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The Moov’in.Paris application is available for download from the Apple Store and Google Play. Drivers will be able to book a vehicle as soon as they are put into service in October. Renault supplies the vehicles and carries out maintenance and repair. The invoicing is then triggered, at a price of €0.39

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Fisker opens reservations for Ocean SUV; cost starts as low as $379/month

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opened reservations for the Ocean electric luxury SUV, arriving in 2022, through its website and native mobile app—available globally on the App Store and Google Play store. The Fisker app offers a flexible lease program, maintenance and repair on demand, insurance purchase to easy finance options. Fisker Inc.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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Manufacturing Infrastructure Software Development Training and Skill Development Retrofitting Fleet operation Dealership and Franchise Maintenance and Repair. The training includes hardware setup development, software development, electric vehicle design, calculation, maintenance, charging station installation, etc. to be successful.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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The journey that made Leng’s dream a reality kicked into high gear in 2014 when a chance meeting with investor Sebastian Thrun at an aviation conference led to Google cofounder Larry Page investing in Leng’s project. Ed Lu , a former NASA astronaut and executive at Google, sits on Opener’s safety-review board.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty. But that is not the case in the cockpit. 3,000 a day.

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Volkswagen showcases inductive charging w/ “power lift”, autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities & gesture control at CES

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In this way, the app makes it possible to have third parties unload the car, for instance, or perform maintenance without having to have the real car key in their hands. The three underlying software interfaces of App-Connect are the initial Mirror Link (2014), and now Android Auto (Google) and CarPlay (Apple). e-Golf Trained Parking.

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