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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

Is it your friends who were present? We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. Is it the food you were eating?

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

e-Golf customers can drive the vehicle confidently, knowing Volkswagen is addressing the vehicle’s environmental impacts through many stages of its lifecycle from production, distribution and charging. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. This goes beyond just selling electric vehicles.

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

Drive Electric

I personally love this distinctive grid at the front, it really looks like it means business. The charging flap is located here at the front left of the vehicle, this opens which opens like so to reveal your Type 2 and your CCS connector. The CCS connector is your public rapid charge port. First impressions. Functionality.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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2023 Kia Niro GT-Line review: Kia’s small SUV EV put to the seven-day family test

EV Central

It’s a more sober and rational small family SUV boasting decent cabin space, long electric range, fast charging, premium features and smart tech. Kia asks $66,590 plus on-roads for the entry-level Niro S EV (about $70,600 drive-away), while our test Niro GT-Line EV is $72,360 plus charges, or some $76,500 drive away.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Drivers will need to select the "stealth" mode to rely exclusively on electricity stored in the battery. The Roadster runs exclusively on power stored in its battery: it does not have an onboard generator to extend its range. The Tesla Roadster can go 244 miles on a charge, but recharging it takes hours.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v. slow charge. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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