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Polestar unveils Polestar 2 electric fastback; targeting Tesla Model 3

Green Car Congress

Polestar launched in 2017 with the Polestar 1—a low-volume Electric Performance Hybrid GT with 600 hp, 1,000 N·m and an electric-only range of 150 km (93 miles). Phone-as-Key technology enables car sharing and a more integrated ownership experience, as well as Polestar’s connected services such as pick-up and delivery.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

That alarmed the US, which equated Huawei's dominance with Chinese-control of global telecommunications—under a 2017 Chinese law all domestic companies are compelled to help the Chinese intelligence services on demand. 5G devices, meanwhile, can connect directly to each other through radio networks forming an " edge cloud " of their own.

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The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard

Cars That Think

There is now a worldwide connected car data industry , trading in anonymized vehicle, driver, and location data aggregated from billions of journeys made in tens of millions of vehicles from all the major automotive OEMs. and the Netherlands in 2016. Tesla did not respond to requests for clarification on this and other issues).

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Watery, Peaceful, Wild: The Call of the Mangroves

Baua Electric

More crucially, mangrove forests are extraordinary for decreasing the effects of global warming, by absorbing and storing carbon annually at a rate 10 times as great as tropical rainforests. Working in this field of conservation, you might come in from one entry point and then you realize everything is connected,” said Ms.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

Cars That Think

DigitalGlobe (which Maxar acquired in 2017) recently announced that it had managed to send data from a satellite down to a ground station and then store it in the cloud in less than a minute. After a satellite captures some number of images, all that data needs to be sent down to Earth and processed. The time required for that varies.

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