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Could Tesla Be Selling 10 Million Cars A Year By End Of Decade?

CleanTechnica EVs

As co-founder Ian Wright told me in a 2014 interview, “Martin Eberhard’s initial stimulus for starting Tesla was to build the EV he wanted to buy. Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris At Tesla’s founding back in 2003, no one imagined the massive growth that lay ahead for the company. Or did they? Elon Musk had […].

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Penn State, EC Power use internal thermal modulation to enable stable fast charging

Green Car Congress

Further, we build a digital twin of such a battery pack to assess its cooling and safety and demonstrate that thermally modulated 4C charging only requires air convection. This 10-min fast-charging battery was developed for electric cars, with the black box on the top containing a battery management system to control the module.

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MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

Cars That Think

If one robot finds itself in communications range with another robot, they can share map data, and use those data to build and improve a globally consistent map that includes semantic annotations. The award-winning researchers say that Kimera-Multi is a distributed system that runs locally on a bunch of robots all at once.

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Why we’re launching our EV Climate Loan during the COVID recession

EV Life

At EV Life, we connect people with opportunities to build a safer, more sustainable world, starting with electric cars. If we want to preserve clean air, reverse climate change, and build a safer, more sustainable world, we know one thing is true: Your next car needs to be electric. Want to learn more?

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How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Cars That Think

For the automotive industry, as we summarized in five charts that helped demystify the chip shortage , time eventually brought car makers up from the end of a 52-week waiting list to get the chips they needed for their entertainment and driving assistance systems. considered getting into the chip-stimulus game as well.

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Beijing Wont Restrict Auto Purchases to Deal With Growing Congestion

Green Car Congress

To deal with increasingly serious traffic congestion, Beijing will take steps such as raising parking fees in urban districts and striving to build more rail transit lines to address the issue, so ordinary residents may rationally select the travel option they prefer. 69% of licensed drivers can drive a car. billion population.

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Mayor DiVirgilio: “Why Hermosa Beach is Going Carbon Neutral”

Creative Greenius

Now is the time to use the stimulus, grant and foundation money available to those who lead before the map is even drawn. Now is the time to step up and seize the opportunities available to those who act on new realities before they become mainstream trends.

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