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FTC Launches “Combating Auto Retail Scams” Rule

The Truth About Cars

The FTC says these efforts are designed to “add truth and transparency to the car buying and leasing process by making it clear that certain deceptive or unfair practices are illegal,” basically making CARS a promise to consumers that the government still understands how business is supposed to be conducted. electric vehicle subsidies).

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Stanford faculty awarded $2.2M for 9 energy research projects; high-performance batteries, promoting sustainable vehicles, wireless power transfer for moving vehicles

Green Car Congress

The three projects funded by the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center focus on how consumers make decisions when buying cars, appliances and even light bulbs: Experiments with Appliance Choice. Will drivers buy more environmentally friendly vehicles in response to information about present benefits rather than future environmental gains?

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

Charged EVs

Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

Now [inaudible] try to play in a fair comparison with a fair setting where both the autonomous drone and the human-piloted drone are using both onboard perceptions or egocentric vision, then things might end up differently. So today we don’t model— we estimate the wind. So actually, his reaction was quite scared. It’s around €3,000.

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Road Test: 2021 Lexus NX 300h F Sport Black Line Special Edition

Clean Fleet Report

This excellent fuel economy is a prime reason to consider buying a NX 300h. Wind noise was low with a respectable 0.34 Comparison Test: 2019 Lexus UX 200 & 250h Hybrid. In 1,020 miles on a California road trip, using the all-speed dynamic cruise control as much as possible, Clean Fleet Report achieved an average of 34.1

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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