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Failed SONDORS Metacycle motorcycle was never street legal, reveals employee

Baua Electric

The closure occurred shortly after Electrek exposed the first images of warehouses full of thousands of SONDORS Metacycles sitting unpaid at the Chinese factory that had been contracted to build the bikes. And during homologation, major issues were overlooked that would render the bike non-street legal.

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Get H2 partners propose green hydrogen pipeline in Europe

Green Car Congress

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative in Europe want to build a cross-border pipeline for green hydrogen. Collectively, the overall project can map the essential building blocks of the green hydrogen value chain and form the basis for an efficient European gas infrastructure for hydrogen.

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A closer look at minimizing AC charging losses: From the breaker to EV (Part 1)

Charged EVs

In the quest to improve efficiency even more, the focus tends to be on the flashier parts of the drivetrain, like the motor (which certainly deserves it) and inverter (which arguably doesn’t, since efficiency is typically already ~99 %), while scant attention is paid to relatively unsexy things like charging cables and auxiliary/parasitic loads.

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How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

Cars That Think

This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to look at the many technical challenges that arise along the full spectrum of autonomy. Determining legal obligations. Ensuring robustness.

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FTA to award up to $24.9M to low- or no-emissions transit bus projects

Green Car Congress

In order to maximize LoNo Program impact, FTA seeks to build on existing transit bus procurements, where possible. Proposals should result in the deployment of at least five new transit buses per location; the buses must be largely identical. Electric (Battery) Emissions Fleets Fuel Cells Heavy-duty Hydrogen Policy'

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Cars That Think

She spoke to Spectrum about starting with the data and whether Sony, with half its business in content creation, could play a role in building a new kind of generative AI. This is definitely a field where researchers have been accustomed to using large web-scraped datasets that do not have any consideration of these ethical dimensions.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Effective January 1, 2022, electric vehicles with final assembly* (see definition at the end) in China would no longer qualify for IRC 30D (federal EV tax credit). One of the proposed changes to the federal EV tax credit that has flown a bit under the radar is also one of the most political and protectionist in nature.