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Comment on NIO says Abu Dhabi investment took just 3 weeks from talk to deal by Augustus Meyer

CN EV Post

Simple solution: Make battery swapping tech "Open Source" for other NEV producers. Why did Mr. Li not buy these cheap shares by himself, to show confidence in NIO ? Did he buy any shares with private money, not using free options ? Great idea; terrible execution.

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Infiniti tech, Chrysler Pacifica recall, Hyundai Kona electric, charging costs: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Faster charging is coming—but it won't come cheap. And we detail why the Hyundai Kona Electric is one of our three finalists for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019. Infiniti bumps turbo fuel efficiency with a new variable-compression engine. Chrysler recalls Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivans—again.

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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Cars That Think

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. Amazon wanted to increase the amount of behind-the-meter power it buys from the plant from 300 MW to 480 MW. Susquehanna agreed to sell it.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

We bleated away like blind sheep, buying Ford EcoSports at twice the rate we did Souls in 2019, the last year it was sold in Australia. The handling vs comfort balance has been well applied by Kia’s chassis techs, so highway cruising’s quite cushy, aside from some marked road noise. Really, it’s at its best in town.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. That’s why both sides are relying increasingly on low-tech alternatives–dumb artillery shells instead of pricey missiles, and drones instead of fighter aircraft. That’s not cheap, except by U.S.

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

Cars That Think

The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam.

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

Buying a New Car is inefficient, its no wonder that electric vehicle sales are still pretty low. The buying experience of a new car for each of us is different, but the one similarity for all of us is its inefficiency. Each of us has a different approach to buying a new car.

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