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Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

Green Car Congress

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. Among the technologies that will be applied to the Honda Smart Home US: Solar Power System. ZeroHouse 2.0

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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

Baua Electric

But it’s comparable to other battery storage costs – a Powerwall costs $11,500 with a solar installation through Tesla – and GM’s system eliminates the need to install battery storage. Electrek ‘s Jameson Dow will demo GM Energy’s new V2H products on May 9 and will report back with insights. Get started here. –

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

Here to talk about its so-called Powerfoyle solar cell technology is Exeger’s founder and CEO, Giovanni Fili. So what we’re doing is we’re trying to eliminate this or reduce or eliminate this battery anxiety by integrating— seamlessly integrating, I should say, a solar cell. And the solar cell can take the shape. Fili: Yeah.

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What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Cars That Think

Not a bad performance for a tech demo that was supposed to be terminated two years ago. This was nothing new for folks who have managed to keep this 30-day technology demo alive and healthy and productive for years, all from a couple hundred million kilometers away. You have to keep in mind, Ingenuity is a tech demo.

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Mars Helicopter Just Keeps On Going

Cars That Think

Obviously, they were very focused on accomplishing the tech demo, and that was always a top priority. So whenever we’d ask, “what happens next,” they’d tell us not to get distracted because a successful tech demo was why the helicopter was funded to go to Mars. It would be amazing. It would be great to see that in the future.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

Plug In India

If your charging infra is from solar & battery recycling is sorted, then it’s the ideal for environment. Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. Current premium 2w EV's, give a tough fight to 125-150 Cc Petrol motorcycles.

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Jaguar I-PACE : Impressions | DC Fast Charging

Plug In India

Video: Jaguar I-PACE : Impressions | DC Fast Charging Demo Day 1 We left Pune on the Deccan Queen train and reached Dadar at 1000 hrs. At such a late hour, he personally landed up and got the charger up and running. We also tried DC fast charging the I-PACE at a Tata Power fast charging station. 90 kWH / 7 kW = 13 hours). We got a Rs.400

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