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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

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SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. The majority of consumers SpaceX bringing Starlink’s standard $599 kit would make the tech more accessible and, hopefully, significantly decrease delivery estimates. Home Depot offers 12-month financing for the standard Starlink kit at $50.00

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The Sneaky Standard

Cars That Think

Simply put, standardization slowly fixed this. One of the best examples of a bedrock standard is the peripheral component interconnect, or PCI, which came about in the early 1990s and appeared in some of the decade’s earliest consumer machines three decades ago this year. Who’s responsible for spearheading this standard?

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Proposed California Bill SB-233 Mandates Bidirectional Charging for EVs to Advance Grid and Climate Protection

Driivz

This smart EV charging technology , also known by its use cases — vehicle-to-home (V2H) , vehicle-to-building (V2B), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) , or vehicle-to-everything (V2X) — holds tremendous potential for solving grid limitations. Vehicle-to-building works much the same way but on a larger scale.

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Feature: The Genesis Experience

Clean Fleet Report

Not all succeed as talk is cheap, actions are tough, and many don’t do so well following through. The Hyundai Motor Group has made a $10 billion investment to build and sell electric vehicles in North America; the first is the 2023 Electrified GV70 built at the new manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Alabama.

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First Look: 2024 Ford Ranger and Ranger Raptor

The Truth About Cars

Ranger happens to be to the versions you can already buy in countries where they have the steering wheel on the wrong side. Normally, when you set out to build a jack of all trades, the end product tends to be kind of middling. Rear-wheel drive is standard with an open differential. But that’s hardly a surprise.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers. Earlier post.).

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed.

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