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Elevating the EV Consumer Experience: Beas Auto Sales and PlugStar Certification 

Plug in America

Located in Stockton, California, Beas Auto Sales is a leading automotive dealership dedicated to accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to promote cleaner transportation vehicles. Do you have any personal interests or connections to the EV industry or sustainable practices in general? Absolutely!

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EC JRC report explores future of road transport; moving away from system centered on private car ownership

Green Car Congress

The Joint Research Center (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, has released a report exploring the future of road transport, given the advent of automated, connected, low-carbon and shared mobility. New transport technologies on their own won’t spontaneously make our lives better. —Biagio Ciuffo, lead author.

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Volkswagen to invest ~$18B in China through 2022 on e-mobility, autonomy, digitalization, mobility services; new JAC-VW electric SUV

Green Car Congress

We are accelerating to make mobility cleaner, safer and more intelligent to really improve people’s lives. FAW-Volkswagen is building an intelligent network-connected ecosystem that will provide users with a safe, convenient and personalized experience. and intelligent connectivity. SOL E20X electric SUV.

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BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

Green Car Congress

The pilot is designed to further explore how to optimize EV charging with renewables on the electric grid and enable more customers to power their EVs with cleaner energy. BMW ChargeForward Phase Three. When a customer allows their vehicle to be smart charged, the vehicle charging will be shifted to meet the needs of the electric grid.

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This new Airbus air taxi has a 50-mile range and is quieter than a hairdryer

Baua Electric

Back when Airbus introduced the NextGen design in 2021, it promised that these features keep sound levels to below 65 A-weighted decibels (dBA) during fly-over and below 70 dBA during landing – so that’s about the sound of a hairdryer or vacuum cleaner at landing, even less in flight. Perhaps closer to people talking loudly.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? I’ve read it.

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