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New algorithm to allow Wi-Fi connected cars to share Internet connections

Green Car Congress

At the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing this month in Portugal, researchers from MIT, Georgetown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will present a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. Unfortunately, what’s not cheap is communications.”

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Now nominally retired and living in Portugal, he remains active in the infrastructure space as a consultant, and closely follows the development of the EV charging ecosystem. So now they think maybe they don’t need a 500-mile range, maybe they can get by with 300. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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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.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Here goes the list: 10TH PLACE: PORTUGAL, 49 POINTS (FIRST APPEARANCE EVER) Europe’s affinity to EVs has steep north-south and east-west gradients. Now Portugal, one of Western Europe’s poorest countries, narrowly beat a tight second-10 field to become the first Southern European country in the Top 10. Over here in the US.

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