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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

“We need to go all out in building charging infrastructure and developing the workforce required to install and maintain it.” EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “We

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Got to prove you are awake by touching the wheel, but you can buy a weight on Amazon to hang on the wheel to get round that. Then it expanded into Phoenix, also relatively easy. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. Waymo tried an easy case first.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

It makes sense for organizations to focus on their core activities, so just as they outsource things like IT or building maintenance, many want to outsource the charging infrastructure for their electric fleets. They wanted to buy one or two trucks and test them for several years, and startup companies couldn’t stay alive that long.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

You can buy it now. How many millions have they spent to develop a vehicle that you cant buy, that no one is prepared to service and that most Americans wouldnt want if you gave it to them? Give me a vanilla version without the revenue generating doodads and Ill buy one or two. It would, however make the vehicle a huge success.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? I wont be buying an electric car of any kind.