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How to Save When Building an EV Charging Station

Setec Powerr

However, building an EV charging site is not a straightforward task. Understanding the EV Charging Landscape The first step towards building an EV charging site is understanding the landscape. Sites need to meet a variety of safety and other standards before construction can begin.

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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

Teslarati

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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Report: Tesla Readying New Model 3 Performance

The Truth About Cars

The standard range rear-drive model remained, along with the Model 3 Long Range, but the Performance was nowhere to be found. As these things typically go with Tesla, the automaker will likely sell all the Model 3 Performance units it can build.

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Fraunhofer suggests e-scooters as application for its magnesium hydride paste hydrogen storage technology

Green Car Congress

It can therefore be supplied by a standard filling line, using relatively inexpensive equipment. POWERPASTE is also cheap to transport, since no costly high-pressure tanks are involved nor the use of extremely cold liquid hydrogen. The paste is fluid and pumpable.

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Exclusive! Radical Renault 5 electric hatch warming for Australia as Tesla rival after Geneva negotiations

EV Central

Days after returning from his mission to Geneva where the Renault 5 E-Tech was officially launched, Renault Australia director Glen Sealey said he was still busy building a case for the compact five-door. Super-cheap Dacia Spring electric SUV is going right-hand drive, but will it come to Australia as a Renault?

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

The Truth About Cars

However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. But it also left your author wondering why standard hybrids weren’t seeing the same number of problems. Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.