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Superchargers in Ireland, Romania and Hungary open to non-Tesla EVs

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Tesla has opened select Superchargers to non-Tesla electric vehicles (EVs) in Ireland, Romania and Hungary, as announced earlier this month. The report says that the included Superchargers in Ireland offer as many as 18 individual charging stalls, each with 250 kW charging speeds that can add up to 275 km or range in about 15 minutes.

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Ford Mustang Mach-E becomes British Police preference

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The Mach-E has been added to a fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the department there purchased two units for operation. The Standard Range trim of the Mach-E only packs 211 miles of range per full charge, but the Mach-E has longer range versions available that can provide up to 305 miles of range. Credit: Ford.

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UK Government Announces £5,000 Grants Towards Purchase of Electric Drive Vehicles and First Plugged-in Places

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The Plug-in Car Grant will be distributed directly to consumers at the point of purchase and will be managed in a similar way to the grant made as part of the Government’s scrappage scheme. Cars will be discounted at the point of purchase and the subsidy claimed by the manufacturer to provide a straightforward process for the consumer.

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TfL Board approves production order for 600 new hybrid buses for London

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The buses also deliver better than twice the fuel economy of a standard diesel bus. The buses are manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland; Wrightbus won a contract in 2009 to build eight prototypes with an option to produce the first 1,000 vehicles.

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Crypto, Venmo, NFTs, Tokens: Where Is Money Going?

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So, the standard economic definition of money is something that is a means of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Rachel O’Dwyer In Ireland in the 1980s and the 1990s, alongside social welfare payments, we had a token called the butter voucher , which allowed people who were receiving social welfare payments to access butter.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But some of these things are going to have to be mandated through standards and regulations, and specifically through the lens of these cybersecurity requirements and knowing what’s going into your software. There really is no commercial downside to using this big software because you can always say, “Well, it’s industry standard.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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And that’s just the purchase price; the total life cycle cost for the new Columbia - class ballistic-missile submarine is estimated to exceed $395 billion. resolution and can be installed on satellites, but it consumes a lot of power —a standard automotive unit with a range of several hundred meters can burn 25 watts. Robo-Shark, a 2.2-meter-long