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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

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Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) has pioneered neighborhood electric vehicles (EVs), demonstrating a prosperous past and promising future. These machines make local transportation safe and sustainable with battery power and low speeds. While it has a bright future, the GEM lineup has come a long way since its start 30 years ago.

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Tesla loses VP of Legal to LiDAR startup Luminar

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Tesla’s longtime Vice President of Legal and Acting General Counsel, Al Prescott, has joined LiDAR startup Luminar. “Luminar has pioneered safety-critical technology that will power our autonomous future. Tesla’s Autonomy Day highlights Elon Musk’s vision for a full self-driving future without LiDAR.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Heath has great job security: half of Phoenix residents are at risk of an emergency room visit or worse if their electricity fails during a future heat wave, according to a recent study. But to get the air conditioner’s compressor working in the first place, a faraway power plant had to produce a surge of electricity.

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Two-way EV Charging – The Future of Electric Vehicle Power

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Consumers have been lowering their power demands for more than a decade by adding solar panels to their roofs. Two-way EV charging will reduce that even further- using EV batteries to power homes (vehicle-to-home V2H), buildings (vehicle-to-building V2B) or feed it back to the grid with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Mercedes-Benz begins sales of DRIVE PILOT Level 3 conditionally automated driving in Germany

Green Car Congress

In parallel to the successful launch of DRIVE PILOT in Germany, Mercedes-Benz aims to obtain regulatory series approval for the two US states of California and Nevada by the end of the year, provided the legal situation permits the system operation. At the same time, we also want to receive certification in the US by the end of the year.

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T&E: tests show cars powered by electrofuels emit high levels of criteria pollutants

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Due to the lack of commercially available e-fuels, IFPEN had to blend three e-fuel blends itself representative of potential future fuel that are compatible with gasoline cars. Future e-fuels are likely to be mostly paraffinic blends as these aree the chemicals produced during the Ficher-Tropsch process, T&E said. aromatics).

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Major power and gas company E.ON splitting in two; focusing on renewables, spinning off conventional power generation

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Düsseldorf, Germany-base E.ON, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies, is adopting a new strategic direction under which is will split itself in two. These two missions are so fundamentally different that two separate, distinctly focused companies offer the best prospects for the future. SE shareholders.

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