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Shanghai General Motors introduces Sail SPRINGO EV at Auto Guangzhou 2012; green technology strategy to 2020

Green Car Congress

The vehicle was developed by Shanghai GM and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), making it the first production electric vehicle created by a Chinese joint venture. kW charging station or a standard household outlet. The SPRINGO EV will be sold for RMB 258,000 (US$41,460). The Sail SPRINGO EV can be charged using a 3.3-kW

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CHAdeMO, China Electricity Council to co-develop next-gen ultra-fast EV charging standard; backward compatibility with CHAdeMO, GB/T

Green Car Congress

CHAdeMO Association and the China Electricity Council (CEC) will jointly develop a next generation Ultra-Fast charging standard. CEC is China’s official association of utilities in charge of their national regulations and standards related to electricity. CHAdeMO Version 1.2 —CHAdeMO’s Secretary General Dave Yoshida.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

The secret is that Polestar is an electric performance brand from Volvo and its Chinese owner, Geely Holding. A BMW owner, he is a possible future Polestar buyer, which made this a demo ride and reinforced my positive impressions. It could stop and go with pinpoint accuracy with the “Standard” setting. Still a bit of a mystery.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

Cars That Think

The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. Goodbye BBN, Hello DARPA Kahn officially left BBN the day after the demo concluded to join DARPA (the agency having recently added the word “Defense” to its name). “He Cerf was in. The two met regularly over the next six months to work on “the internetworking problem.”

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