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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The aim of the project, funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU), is to optimize the charging strategy to the use of wind energy for the MINI E to achieve the best possible. 20 MINI E users will be able to use the prototype of a route planner for smartphones, which can display charging stations along a selected route.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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The state’s charging infrastructure lags badly. public charging outlets per ZEV, placing it ahead of only New Jersey and Alaska for availability of infrastructure. Over the same time period, traditional gasoline vehicle registration increased 1.7%. At the time of publication, California has only 0.05

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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These competitive advantages give them stronger insights into the market overall and into customer charging requirements. E.ON, a German power company; EDF, based in France; and Italy’s Enel are partnering with Nissan to build V2G networks. No e-Mobility service provider can operate without their infrastructure.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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