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Spotify’s Car Thing Is a Cautionary Tale About Connected Automotive Products

The Truth About Cars

The unit was very obviously designed for people with older vehicles that lack modern touchscreens and connectivity features. But Spotify’s connected music device is just a few months away from being a paperweight. Meanwhile, this entire situation underscores just how troublesome connected services are for consumers.

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How Skycharger Built Their Charging Network on the EV Connect Charging Business Platform

EV Connect

Partnering with New York installers, they put in 300 stations in less than 12 months under the Skycharger brand. They did not want to go through the cost, hassle, and delay of developing their own charging network software and mobile app or standing up their own driver support call center. It’s one thing I don’t have to worry about.”

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Connected Signals launches cloud-based V2I systems

Green Car Congress

Connected Signals, Inc. The company, a leading provider of predictive real-time traffic signal information, has developed a proprietary vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology that is a cloud-based, centralized system connecting vehicles to traffic signals, and providing prioritization of buses, pedestrians, EMS vehicles, and others.

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5GAA hosts C-V2X connected vehicle demo in Berlin

Green Car Congress

The 5G Automotive Association ( 5GAA ) hosted an interoperability demo of cellular-data-enabled connected vehicle (C-V2X) applications in Berlin. Vodafone Germany and Ford show connected vehicle technology (V2X) that could alert drivers to an accident ahead, moments after it has happened (via eCall Plus). Remote-operated driving.

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Groupe Renault, Connected Energy install EV charging with 2nd-life batteries at highway rest areas

Green Car Congress

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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4 Powerful Reasons to Choose EV Connect for Your Fleet Charging

EV Connect

Here’s why EV Connect offers the best solution to lock in the full cost and time savings. At a business level, fleet operators need an accurate measure of fuel costs. What Makes EV Connect the Ideal Partner? EV Connect gives you the freedom to scale in the future, with the power to optimize now.

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Pecan Street launches Texas’ first grid-connected vehicle-to-grid research and testing center

Green Car Congress

New grid-tied V2G equipment installed at Pecan Street’s lab in Austin, TX. Pecan Street estimates that each electric vehicle connected to this kind of dispatchable system could power a home for two to five hours or power up to five homes for about an hour each. Electric vehicles can be more than emission-free transportation.

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