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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. In the last five years, Europe has bestowed massive new regulatory and spending power on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, known as. Meantime, the E.U. What the tech is up against.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

Green Car Congress

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. In his remarks before this year’s Geneva Show, Winterkorn called on industry in Europe to “ show even more courage and even greater innovative strength. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. In North America and Europe, thermostats control half a home’s energy bill—something like $2,500 a year. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 And we needed to sell it.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers. Geopolitical friction is low.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

EV Central

Living and working in Europe has its advantages… So, what’s impressive about this small EV, styled to blur the boundary between conventional hatch and crossover? Powered by Google’s Android Automotive operating system, its responsiveness is superior to just about anything else on the market today.

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2024 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor review: Better, but good enough?

Baua Electric

So long as you have a Google account and a smartphone (yes, including an iPhone), setup takes under a minute. Google Maps routing with built-in charging planning works well, and I love that my recently viewed POIs across all my devices show up in the car’s map search — it feels like the future! It is just so easy.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.