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How Truck Stops and Convenience Stores Can Benefit from Holiday EV Travel

Blink Charging

And for a population that associates convenience stores with fueling stations, truck stops and roadside convenience stores have a golden opportunity to attract EV drivers, especially in more rural areas where electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) is scarce. DCFCs are capable of charging a vehicle battery in under an hour.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.

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Wallbox’s Pulsar Plus home EV chargers now available for purchase at NAPA Auto Parts

Green Car Congress

NAPA Auto Parts stores will be an authorized dealer of Pulsar Plus, Wallbox’s award-winning smart home EV charger, online and in-store at more than 6,000 locations across the United States and Canada. Pulsar Plus is available for purchase in select retail locations as of mid-February 2022.

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SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida

Teslarati

Known as Launch Complex 49 (LC-49) and located where NASA once considered building LC-39C, a third Saturn-class pad to match 39A and 39B, NASA now says that SpaceX aims to develop the site into a dedicated Starship launch pad. NASA + Google Maps). The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6

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Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers

Cars That Think

On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Polestar integrates Amazon Prime for entertainment

Teslarati

The Google Play Store has also gained a rich variety of apps that offer interactivity and entertainment, from playing games to streaming series.” The Polestar 2 launched with the Google Android Automotive OS, which is the same software its cars use today.

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San Antonio Hyundai Dealer Removes Landmark

The Truth About Cars

It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage. As you’ve likely surmised, the dealer is in the larger throes of constructing a new dealership building and is seemingly trying to align the rest of its décor with the new corporate look. Here’s a Google Streetview image from that era. Texas, ya’ll.