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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

Green Car Congress

San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. The capsules may be passenger-only, or, for more flexibility (and at a higher system cost), passenger and automobile combinations. This air is stored in onboard composite overwrap pressure vessels. Up to 0.44 Water is pumped at 0.30

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

Green Car Congress

The MEB will be the foundation for an entirely new generation of battery-electric vehicles designed not only to be electric and feature extended range, but to be connected, autonomous, open and priced for the volume market as required by Volkswagen’s positioning. The first production MEB vehicle, a version of the I.D. —Christian Senger.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

It doesn’t have any connection to the world. I live in the city of San Francisco, and for almost a year now, I’ve been able to take rides after 10:30 PM and before 5:00 AM, if it’s not a foggy day—I’ve been able to take rides in a Cruise vehicle with no driver. It is correlation between language. He’s also turned it into a book.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Overhead, an optional Glass Canopy ($4,500) that is seamlessly connected to the windshield creates a sunroom effect from the hood to the rear window. Really good, not perfect Climbing behind the wheel of the Lucid Air Touring, you’ll quickly have an appreciation for a fine automobile.

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Toyota FCV Mirai launches in LA; initial TFCS specs; $57,500 or $499 lease; leaning on Prius analogy

Green Car Congress

Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). This includes hot testing in Death Valley, cold testing in Yellowknife, Canada, steep grade hill climbs in San Francisco and high altitude trips in Colorado.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

Teslarati

Tesla has failed to inform consumers about measured levels of magnetic fields and wireless radiation within the automobile or their other products. Seabed mining could release carbon stores and toxic sediment plumes, poisoning marine food chains, and disrupting sea life breeding and migration. Yeah, no question.

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