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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

As an EV, the 2021 Polestar 2 is a silent traveler, and the time on the road gave me the chance to test what is the world’s first in-vehicle application of an infotainment system powered by Android with Google apps and services built-in. Google in the car. News: Mercedes EQC 400 EV Debuts. Road Trip: 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E EV.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Put the bumper sticker and your car and let everyone know.).

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Volvo C40 Recharge Pure Electric review

EV Central

That includes the Mercedes-Benz EQA , Tesla Model 3 , Polestar 2, Kia EV6 , Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Volvo’s own XC40 EV. The C40 is not capable of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-load (V2L) charging. Like the XC40, the C40 Recharge gets the Android Automotive operating system run by Google. Ride and handling.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

Cars That Think

Similar tactics that leveraged physical and mobile autonomous things could extend the blast radius beyond IT infrastructure to destroy physical infrastructure like factories, pipelines, electric grids, or worse. Autonomous systems are already demonstrating tremendous value today, and we are just scratching the surface.

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Coulomb Gets Charged Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

Coulomb envisions a landscape transformed by cutting-edge charging stations — a kind of “smart grid&# of Web-networked stations that will communicate with drivers about their availability. Better Place, orchestrating its efforts with French carmaker Renault, will essentially rent out switchable batteries to extend range.

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