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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

Baua Electric

Photo: GM Energy GM Energy just debuted vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional EV chargers – here’s how GM’s EVs will keep the lights on. Once installed, GM Energy’s home EV chargers will enable customers to send power from a compatible GM EV to their home in the face of increasing power outages across the US. Get started here. –

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Stuff We Use: Toolboxes & Worktables

The Truth About Cars

& We’ve been publishing these Stuff We Use installments for a spell now, trying to make sure items covered are generally found in a gearhead’s garage. However, it is not suitable for installing a vice, in my opinion. & After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. &

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

The Truth About Cars

Practical reasons such as being able to prove you weren’t the one who ran that red light are also top-of-mind, naturally. & We feel that’s cheap insurance against the dude in that brodozer who swears he didn’t run the light. & In which camp does your author reside? As it turns out: both.&

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

While most golf carts aren’t cheap, usually between US $8,000 to $12,000 depending on luxury features, they’re still much more affordable than a new car. Golf carts can be highly customized to suit your personal style and needs. A typical 5-7 kWh golf cart battery can be charged for less than one dollar in most states.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

I understand that someone who isn’t a car person – and I have no idea of what level of automotive knowledge Kois possesses – might make an unfortunate correlation between the number of gears in a transmission and the amount of power a car’s engine possesses. There’s a lot more that’s wrong with this piece, but let’s start there.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The overarching question was not whether the light-duty transportation sector would electrify to a significant degree, but when. The nightmare scenario Darbee has is that on a very hot day, after businesses have been running operations, lights and air conditioning all day, people go home, turn the AC on or up, and plug their car in.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

Project installations are also getting faster, with the company achieving 4X installation and commissioning speed since 2019. Tesla Supercharger V4 is being installed in Europe, and it will be optmized for charging all electric cars, not just Teslas. That’s pretty incredible. Racks of castings for Model Y outside giga Texas.

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