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Harris AutoTECHCAST suggests deluge of infotainment features & connected services doing little to accelerate consumer adoption

Green Car Congress

Results from the recently released 2015 Harris Poll AutoTECHCAST suggest that the deluge of infotainment features and connected services coming from the automotive industry may do little to accelerate consumer adoption. Seven in ten (70%) intenders want a connected car because it makes them feel safe.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

To attempt to shine a light on this confusion and inconsistent usage, I conducted a simple and very unscientific poll on Twitter. believe it means the individual connection / charger / port / hardware. believe it means the individual connection / charger / port / hardware. Charging Station Twitter Poll. Well actually no.

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Road Test: 2023 Volkswagen Taos SEL 4Motion

Clean Fleet Report

The rack and pinion electric power steering was too light for our liking, even though it was progressive, tightening (or becomes heavier) on the open road, While lighter in town. The front end has rounded edges with LED lighting on all trim levels (the SEL gets dynamic cornering headlights). All the connections–and knobs!

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Road Test: 2021 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport V6 SEL Premium R-Line

Clean Fleet Report

coefficient of drag (C d ), which is a technical measure of how slippery the Atlas Cross Sport goes through the air, and the engine stop/start feature that turns-off the engine at a traffic light or stopped in rush hour traffic, then restarts when you release the brake pedal. This is very helpful when cornering in an unlit area.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

Plug In India

2w are the key for Ev shift in India for personal commute, let’s say for daily commute with rising fuel prices it makes economical sense to own a eScooter, of course Solar-Ev combo, makes it the best solution with regards to environment as well. Other settings are minimal, Display Change (Light/Dark),Passcode Change, Software version.

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Mahindra Thar Roxx drive review: Blowing competition away, five doors at a time

Baua Electric

Personal preferences may differ but to us, the grille of the Thar – as we have known it – could have been carried forward much like the high bumper with the fog lights and the bonnet design. The rear profile of Thar Roxx is near similar to that of Thar, save for the updated LED tail lights here.

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