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Honda opens Smart Home US in California; produces more energy than it consumes; direct DC-DC EV charging

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The Honda Smart Home US integrates a number of technologies, and is managed by Honda’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS). Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6 Honda’s HEMS leverages the battery to balance, shift and buffer loads to minimize the home’s impact to the electric grid. Click to enlarge.

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Honda, Acura neatly situated in 2023, says American Honda’s Mamadou Diallo

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And the way would Honda reply to worse financial occasions in the event that they got here within the later a number of months? Our sellers are actually conversant in preselling cars of their pipeline, which is helping secure on-hand stock low and [improve] our days-to-turn. Is Honda nonetheless headed in that course?

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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

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2025 Mazda EZ-6 Honda plans to create an $11 billion EV hub in Canada. Set to ramp up in 2028, the Ontario hub could potentially build up to 240,000 EVs per year, and see that as the demand for Honda EVs builds, they’d be American-made. Tesla Model 3 Performance Vietnam’s Vinfast announced Tuesday that it has signed a dozen new U.S.

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Driving Dystopia: Judge Dismisses Automotive Privacy Lawsuit

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The plaintiffs represent a series of class actions suits asserting that vehicles sold by Ford, Honda, General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen have “recorded and intercepted [owners’] private text messages and call logs.” Cars have microphones and people have all kinds of sensitive conversations in them.

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McGill team develops simple system for reversible H2 storage using organic cyclic hydrocarbons; alternative route to solar fuels

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The system, they suggest in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , provides an alternative route to artificial photosynthesis for directly harvesting and storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuel. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. —Li et al.

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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

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Even though compressed air results no air pollution, its inefficiency in conversion and low energy density makes it less competitive. Honda Clarity , Toyota Mirai are a few examples of hydrogen-powered vehicles. They are highly efficient, with some types of fuel cells reaching energy conversion rates of over 50%.

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2024 Toyota GR Corolla Pricing Revealed, New Trim and Performance Parts

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I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve inquired about the price of a GR Corolla only to have to end the conversation by asking “and what are the lives of your family members worth to you?” Though we still imagine there will be a few months where you’ll have some strong words for your local dealer.

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