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SEAT joins Alastria for the development of blockchain technology-based solutions

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SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has joined Alastria , the first semi-public multi-sectorial consortium which aims to provide a venue for digital cooperation in an independent, neutral network in which blockchain technology-based products and services are developed. SEAT is the first car manufacturer to join this network of more than 70 major businesses and institutions.

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California approves next Electrify America fast-charge rollout

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Electrify America's second round of electric-car charging installations has won approval from the California Air Resources Board. The company announced plans for its second round of public charging stations in October, including adding more California cities, helping rural residents install home chargers, filling in gaps in highway networks, and.

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China team uses LiPON coating to protect Li metal anode in Li-S batteries

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A team of researchers in China has devised a simple and mass-produceable method to modify a Li metal anode to avoid the formation of an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and the subsequent growth of Li dendrites in high-energy-density Li-S batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials. The team placed a LiPON (lithium phosphorus oxynitride) coating on the Li metal anode via nitrogen plasma-assisted deposition of electron-beam reaction evaporation

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GM battery facility discharge suggests no immediate successor for Chevy Volt

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Will the Chevrolet Volt get an immediate successor, or will any other model soon carry on with the potential of its brilliant Voltec plug-in hybrid system? Considering what General Motors announced yesterday, both of those possibilities are now looking less likely. GM said that it will cut 50 jobs at the Brownstown facility that assembled battery.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving teams up with Luminar for advanced LiDAR

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Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH , a a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG and the center of excellence for urban autonomous driving in the Volkswagen Group— announced a partnership with Luminar Technologies Inc. to deploy its LiDAR technology. Since launching in March 2017, AID has been scouting the best complementary LiDAR solutions in the market that can support the depth sensing demands of the autonomous driving test fleet currently driving in the city of Munich.

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@LATimes Continues To Ballwash Musk While Ignoring Real Tunnel Story #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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@LATimes I Boiled Your Tucker Carlson Article Down To 18 Words #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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How often do you use Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot? Twitter poll results

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After Elon Musk's announcement last week imploring Tesla owners to try the company's new Navigate on Autopilot software, and promising that the system will allow Teslas to commute from home to work and back without intervention, left us wondering if our readers are equally optimistic about the system. So we decided to ask in our weekly Twitter.

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Human Horizons aims to be more than just an EV startup in China

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Ecosystem is the new buzz word in China’s electric vehicle startup world. Take my recent conversation with James Shyr, chief design officer and a founding partner of Human Horizons, a Shanghai-based company. “The automotive industry, in our opinion, has largely remained inside its own walled garden, closed off from the rest of the ecosystem,” says Shyr.

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Video Review: Mercedes-Benz C-Class

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We just can’t get enough of Mercedes

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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@LATimes Say Their Names: Congresswoman Nanette Barragán & Congressman Jimmy Gomez #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Study finds what Trump is missing about fuel economy: Poor people don't buy new cars

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Rising fuel economy standards make driving more affordable for low-income households, not less as the Trump administration argues, according to a new study by the Consumer Federation of America. In their proposal to freeze fuel-economy increases, the EPA and NHTSA argued that increasing fuel economy standards compromised safety by making new cars.

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GM battery layoffs, Trump and fuel economy, more fast chargers: Today's Car News

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Electrify America gets plans approved to build more fast chargers in California. A new study shows what the Trump administration is missing about how fuel-economy standards affect vehicle affordability. And we have results from our last Twitter poll and a new poll for you to try. All this and more on Green Car Reports. After announcing the demise.