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Stellantis Makes Some Connected Services Free for 10 Years

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Yesterday, the mothership at Stellantis announced a new two-tier system for app-connected services - and one of them has the grand price of $0. Starting this month, buyers of vehicles from the Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and Fiat brands (but, oddly, not Chrysler or Alfa quite yet) can enjoy a full ten years of some app-based connected services.

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

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Tom McCalmont: PairTree is the product we’ve been selling for about a year, which is a pop-up solar canopy that can be a fully off-grid power source, or can be grid-connected. We have a relationship with EV Connect, and with LITEON, so we can use standard commercial chargers in addition to our own. How much solar do you need?

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2027 Slate Truck Previewed: Both Inspired And Inane

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But it's not yet clear if the company has come up with a brilliant new automotive ethos or is just trying to sell you a bunch of stuff by not installing it during assembly. Of particular interest is the fact that this isn't strictly a "connected vehicle." And so, technically speaking, we actually don't need connectivity.

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How OCPP Powers a Smarter, More Accessible EV Charging Network

EV Connect

EV Connect's recent achievement of OCPP 2.0.1 As Dilip Warrier, Senior Vice President of Technology, noted: "For 15 years, EV Connect has championed open standards and interoperability because they are the foundation of a seamless, accessible, and reliable EV charging experience." Setting Today's EV Charging Standard OCPP 2.0.1,

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ZF Developing Novel EV Range Extender, Production Starts Next Year

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While this is a reductive description, we can think about EV range extenders as a sort-of oversized alternator thats connected to an engine that's exists exclusively to keep the device spun up so it can, in turn, convert liquid fuel into electricity. Among other things, ZF's electric machines were installed in a series of iconic London taxis.

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Superconducting Motor Could Propel Electric Aircraft

Cars That Think

Instead, “there’s a cryocooler, and a cold connection, and you pull out the heat from the superconducting magnetic coils to the cryocooler, performing a refrigeration cycle. The rotor is installed within a vacuum chamber. For its proof-of-concept unit, the Hinetics team used an off-the-shelf Stirling-cycle cooler from Sunpower.

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Opinion: Software-Defined Vehicles Will Be Awful

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However, before we start bashing the concept, we should examine some of the upsides of software-defined automobiles (SVDs). It is likewise assumed to maximize the potential of connectivity features, meaning improved integration with artificial intelligence, advanced driving systems, and remote customization.