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DAIHEN leverages WiTricity wireless charging technology for solar-powered mobility demo in Japan

Green Car Congress

at Expo Park in Osaka, Japan, to showcase next-generation mobility services using a small electric vehicle, similar in size and functionality to a golf cart, and a solar-powered wireless charging system, provided by DAIHEN. Our demonstration in Osaka proved that renewable energy coupled with autonomy creates a smart mobility future.

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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

Baua Electric

Connecting with history The archipelago of San Andres and Providencia is more than 400 miles north of the mainland of Colombia, and closer to 100 miles east of Nicaragua, but thanks to a historical wrinkle that is still being ironed out, it is part of Colombia. I’d never driven a golf cart any significant distance, so when Ms.

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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

Cars That Think

When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere.

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Tesla’s Q1 ’21 Deliveries prove Elon Musk was right about the Model S and X in 2019

Teslarati

They’re really of minor importance to the future,” Musk said. This is where Musk’s outlook becomes incredibly accurate, proving that his 2019 quotation regarding the Model S and Model X’s importance to the future is relatively minuscule. This was all a part of Musk’s Master Plan. He was right.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

Of course, this was while he was manufacturing and distributing parts for conversions.”. The only EV he was familiar with was a golf cart, so he tried playing around with that, and eventually converted a Beck into electric.” Jack Rikard on EVTV. I can attest to the fact that his system worked.”

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

Green Car Congress

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. This new research center shows Ford’s commitment to be part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem—anticipating customers’ wants and needs, especially on connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

National Drive Electric Week event connects Indiana’s EV future with its EV past. It’s basically just a souped-up golf cart, but Ford wouldn’t allow them to import it into the US. We had 100-odd signatures and sent it into the city as part of the public information request for comments,” Schalk said. “

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