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Ford F-150 Lightning road trip test: Can the electric pickup travel as well as gas?

Electrek

So I planned a trip from New York City to Detroit. And by planned, I mean I put the trip in Google Maps and made sure there were Electrify America (EA) stops along the way. Besides F-150 Lightning towing , I also wanted to see how good the electric pickup would be for road-tripping. Could it be this easy?

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Cars That Think

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer. air defense system.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

Cars That Think

The company found that BLOOM’s final training emitted 50 tonnes of CO 2 —equivalent to about a dozen flights from New York City to Sydney. The biggest need, she adds, is “open data that we can rely on and trust” from big tech data-center operators and cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

Green Car Congress

DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort.

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Google-backed Gravity claims fastest EV charging in America

Green Car Reports

Gravity, a New York-based EV charging startup backed by Google Ventures, claims to be rolling out the fastest chargers in the U.S.

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Electric Airplanes, Electric Food Carts, Fisker Finds A Buyer: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports, we''ve got news coming from everywhere. Fisker Automotive may have found itself a buyer after all, while Forbes imagines what would happen if Google bought Tesla.

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Google-backed Gravity claims fastest EV charging in America

Baua Electric

Gravity, a New York-based EV charging startup backed by Google Ventures, claims to be rolling out the fastest chargers in the U.S. Gravity EV charging center in New York City The initial location, a parking garage on West 42nd Street in one of the densest parts of New York’s Manhattan borough, includes 24 charging stalls.

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