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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

This demand will come from a range of drivers associated with decarbonisation and other technologies, including industrial process heat conversions, population growth, data centres, and electric vehicle uptake. From here to 2050, it is expected that demand for electricity could double. The scale of this transformation needs to be understood.

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Advanced Propulsion Centre UK publishes automotive power electronics value chain

Green Car Congress

APC says that this is the first document of its kind to demonstrate the complete value chain; identifying what’s needed to build a robust end-to-end UK supply chain. Silicon carbide is the preferred front runner for future electric vehicle power distribution, control, and supply management.

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ARAPL RaaS Appoints Jerry Kurian as independent software evaluator – ET Auto

Baua Electric

In this role, Jerry will directly report to the ARAPL RaaS Board, providing oversight and validation across critical areas including meeting timelines, product quality, regulatory compliance, safeguarding intellectual property and maintaining standards for technical documentation, the company said.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged EVs

However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. So all the workable batteries that are out there now use graphite on the anode side, and they will for—as we see it—the foreseeable future.

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A Tesla Model X and Model 3 just drove the length of the Americas

Teslarati

The group has been documenting their entire journey to the south on their YouTube page , and according to news from an outlet in Argentina ( 19640Noticias ), they have likely just arrived at Ushuaia, Argentina, the Southern most town in the world. It is now more evident than ever that electric vehicles are ready, and they are the future.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. Unfortunately, these kits are for much older vehicles like the Porsche 914 and the VW Rabbit. Damn the torpedoes. Here we go.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. But if several Altos are linked, along with file servers and printers, the result looks suspiciously like the office of the future. Even today, he said, he receives laser-printed documents from universities in which he can recognize the Dover typefaces.

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