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IBM and EKZ partner to make plug-in charging more convenient with new smartphone application

Green Car Congress

IBM Research has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers conveniently to charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. —Dieter Gantenbein, leader of the Smart Grid research project at IBM Research – Zurich.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

Cars That Think

Upcoming robotics events for the next few months: RoboCup 2024 : 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS ICSR 2024 : 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024 : 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Please send us your events for inclusion. The system is evaluated in an active outdoor three-phase powerline environment.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And yet, what about recharging? Will we have a universal standard for charging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. And the estimate was that about 80 percent of all the miles covered by Volt came from grid power, not from gasoline. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. John Voelcker Great questions.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And yet, what about recharging? Will we have a universal standard for charging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. And the estimate was that about 80 percent of all the miles covered by Volt came from grid power, not from gasoline. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. John Voelcker Great questions.