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Blink Charging to provide up to 41,500 EV charging stations to USPS

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Standard 18-foot charging cables (or the optional 25-foot upgrade) can reach around any vehicle, or between parking spaces, allowing greater flexibility for postal locations. Earlier post.) Blink Series 7 charging station (Indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts provide for an indefinite quantity of services for a fixed time.

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The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

Cars That Think

The Metaverse Standards Forum , which launched on 21 June 2022, isn’t trying to wrangle those details—not directly. Now, the forum has announced that after two months of hashing priorities, it has a list of initial priority topics that will steer metaverse standards development in its domain working groups.

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Plugged Up: GM to Adopt Tesla Charging Standard

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While plenty of (valid) shade can be thrown at Tesla and its big cheese, there’s no argument the company used its 10-year head start on electric cars to completely flip the script and build up an impressive charging network. And designing a second charging flap door on another part of the car to house a NACS port would be very expensive.

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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Dürr building smart and resource-efficient paint shop at San Luis Potosí in Mexico for BMW Group; Industry 4.0

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Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. A multitude of sensors ensure networking of the robot data with the higher-level maintenance software and control system.

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Volkswagen using AR to design new production lines in Chattanooga

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The system helps designers see not just individual parts, but how existing and future equipment could interact in a real environment. Some early examples have shown that the system was able to identify pinch points between machinery and parts that weren’t previously visible.

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Ricardo awarded funding to develop digital-twin design and optimization for electrified powertrains

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A secondary objective is to evaluate the application of digital twin technology to in-service product maintenance. Ricardo’s intention is to apply its expertise in powertrain reduced order modeling for real-time applications and propose innovative business models for virtual product maintenance solutions.

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