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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

Baua Electric

It consists of the GM Energy Powershift Charger at $1,699, and GM Energy V2H Enablement Kit at $5,600. But it’s comparable to other battery storage costs – a Powerwall costs $11,500 with a solar installation through Tesla – and GM’s system eliminates the need to install battery storage.

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Kia has its first customer for its funky Duplo-like EV: Uber

Baua Electric

According to Kia, how it works is that the weld-less top structures come in kit form, which can attach to the driver cab via a hybrid electromagnetic and mechanical coupling technology. Photo credit: Courtesy of Kia If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. Get started here.

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Best Tesla Cybertruck accessories for your upcoming pickup

Teslarati

With the Tesla Cybertruck finally coming to market next year, some customers are already looking for accessories to personalize their upcoming vehicle. Now, a company named CyberWraps is making a kit to do exactly the same thing for your Cybertruck.

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Pentagon denies involvement in Elon Musk’s Starlink shipment to Ukraine

Teslarati

During a recent briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby denied that the US Military had any hand in helping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in his efforts to send Starlink satellite kits to Ukraine, which is currently fighting a war with Russia. I don’t even blame him personally.

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Tesla Cybertruck gets another crazy camping mod perfect for the outdoors

Teslarati

” The Space Campers wedge designed for the Cybertruck will also allow for limitless personalization with plug-and-play accessory kits that can be installed at any point with normal household tools, the company said in a press release for the product. Sidewall cubbies for storage and organization. 4” memory foam mattress.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

“These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d I had to build a controller from a kit,” continued Garver, who was a member of the Electric Auto Association at that time. I charge the car on the solar array in my back yard. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I That gives me 30 miles on a sunny day.”

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

Green Car Congress

The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. OpenXC gives developers and researchers the tools they need to get involved. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford vice president and chief technical officer.

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