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This cheap electric half-car/half-truck looks like a botched Alibaba El Camino

Baua Electric

The power is listed at “less than 50 kW”, which is about as useful as saying the car has less than 50 wheels. It’s nice to see that the little truck is even available in a wide range of colors, allowing you to customize it to your own personality. The humor here isn’t only in the vehicle design though.

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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

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. At $7,299, the bundle doesn’t come cheap. Customers can purchase GM Energy’s V2H bundle through current GM mobile brand apps. Get started here. –

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What One Man Can Do About The Climate — More Than Dream

CleanTechnica EVs

What can one person do? It was cheap at the time, in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, the sub-tropical […]. It’s easy to look at the daily news reporting on climate crisis after climate crisis and despair. Is it too late? My house was built 50 years ago — two stories, brick and glass.

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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

Source: Wood Mackenzie Asia Pacific Power & Renewable Services According to Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, the LCOE from renewables reached a historic low in 2023. As a result, utility solar is now the cheapest power source in 11 out of 15 APAC countries.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. The success of these reconstructions emphasizes the power of using a comprehensive public image database during compression. Why would I bother to do that, you ask?

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Tesla Model 3s from Hertz are going for as low as $14,000

Baua Electric

Hertz is starting to sell some of its Tesla Model 3s and they are going for pretty cheap – as low as $14,000 with the used EV tax credit. Obviously, the reason those Model 3s are listed so cheap is due to their high mileage over a short period of time and the fact that people are a lot less careful with rental vehicles.

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World’s largest solar panel maker to slash thousands of jobs

Baua Electric

Cheap Chinese solar panels are also making it hard for European and US solar panel makers to compete. Meanwhile, cheap solar panels are driving demand, and new installations are booming globally. In response, solar companies are consolidating, and bankruptcies may be on the horizon. The US added a record-setting 32.4

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