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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Green Car Congress

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country. Chang & Jessika E.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

Cars That Think

It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. In 2010, Henry Evans saw a robot on TV. For most of the people watching that day, the PR2 was little more than a novelty.

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The Congressional Review Act and its potential impact on EV tax credits

Plug in America

To spur EV adoption and increase Americans’ access to and the affordability of EVs, Congress passed legislation called the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden signed into law. Investments have flowed to states like Ohio, Kentucky, Arizona, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and more.

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Could Rivian R3 EV revive a stagnant small-car market?

Baua Electric

Rivian R3X To me, it’s hard to believe the R2 and R3 share so many common cues—even their front-end look—as they impress as completely different design statements and personalities. On the adventure front the R2 boasts an entirely new kind of bike-rack system that can be put up with one person and stored away much more easily.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Priced at $56,395, the entry-level EV9 Light has a 76.1-kilowatt-hour Its range is estimated at 230 miles; it’s the price leader that will lure buyers into the showroom.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Priced at $56,395, the entry-level EV9 Light has a 76.1-kilowatt-hour Its range is estimated at 230 miles; it’s the price leader that will lure buyers into the showroom.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Georgia Tech Research. Prosumer-Based Distributed Autonomous Cyber-Physical Architecture for Ultra-reliable Green Electricity Internetworks Georgia Tech will develop and demonstrate an internet-like, autonomous control architecture for the electric power grid. Georgia Institute of. Georgia Tech/NEETRAC, Carnegie Mellon.

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