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MWC 2024: What’s been launched so far? Here are the top 10 things to know about
27Feb By adminNo Comments
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MWC 2024: What’s been launched so far? Here are the top 10 things to know about

[ad_1] The Mobile World Conference (MWC) 2024 kicked off yesterday with multiple innovative launches. From smartwatches to next-generation smartphones, tech companies have upscaled their offerings and over the next few days more such announcements are expected. Apart from the launches at MWC 2024, companies are also showcasing their products of the future which are now in the conceptual or development stage - for instance, Deutsche Telekom's concept mobile that that has no apps. However, here, let's have a look at what has been launched and announced till now.MWC 2024 to 10 announcementsOppo Air Glass 3: Oppo showcased their prototype for augmented reality (AR) glasses with a voice assistant. The smart glasses will be powered by Oppo's large language model (LLM) called AndesGPT. It will...
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Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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Electric car demand set to stall in Europe’s ‘valley of death’

[ad_1] After years of accelerating growth, Europe's electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road.Fully-electric sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, but instead of celebrating, automakers including Tesla, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz sounded a sombre note. High interest rates and a subdued market are putting customers off, they warned, with Volkswagen's EV order intake half what it was last year. Dealers in Germany and Italy as well as research by four global data analysis firms say there is more behind the slower uptake than economic uncertainty, with the consumers unconvinced that EVs meet their safety, range and price needs."The main problem is uncertainty," said T...
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How to Turn Your Electric Car Into a Mobile Power Plant
4Nov By adminNo Comments
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How to Turn Your Electric Car Into a Mobile Power Plant

[ad_1] If you're planning to buy an electric car in 2024, you'll want to compare models' price, range and charging speed. But you should also ask whether the car is capable of powering your home in a pinch. A growing number of EVs coming on the market can tap the considerable energy stored in their batteries to keep the lights on during a blackout and lower your utility bill when rates spike.This “bidirectional charging” capability also promises to transform electric vehicles into a significant source of energy for utilities struggling to balance renewable energy production and climate-caused power disruptions. As EV sales grow, utilities can aggregate batteries into virtual power plants to avoid firing up fossil fuel power stations when demand spikes. The 2.1 million electric vehicles ...
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Electric Vehicles Are Testing the UK’s Love of Small Cars
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Electric Vehicles Are Testing the UK’s Love of Small Cars

[ad_1] It's 4 p.m. on a wet Monday in southeast London, and we're trying to parallel park uphill, a necessary if unpleasant rite of passage for any city driver. Our electric car, a bright red Ora Funky Cat, has been through a battery of such rites today — hauling furniture, ferrying passengers, avoiding pedestrians — and takes to London's streets like it was made for them. On the slippery surface of a narrow road, the Ora EV excels: At just over 4 meters (13 feet), it's easy to parallel park. The Funky Cat is a head-turning EV with a fun design to match its name; there's a hint of Porsche in the flared front fenders and squat haunches. The Asian-made car, which went on sale last fall, is also prowling around a sweet spot in the UK's EV market: models small and light enough that a modest...
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A two-speed electric car market is heading for a crash
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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A two-speed electric car market is heading for a crash

[ad_1] The world's auto industry is accelerating in two directions at once. Unless those contradictions are resolved, carmakers risk running themselves off the road.In China and Europe, the transition to electric vehicles is gathering pace. Battery-powered autos made up nearly a quarter of sales in both markets in August, according to Morgan Stanley, with plug-in hybrids lifting the total share to 38% and 28%, respectively. Things look very different in the US and India, where penetration is struggling to break north of 10%, and in Japan, where it's on life support at 3%. Honda Motor Co. said last week it was dropping plans to build a sub-$30,000 EV with General Motors Co., while GM and Ford Motor Co. and have pushed back targets for boosting sales of battery vehicles. Even Elon Musk ha...
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How climate-conscious Americans reduce their carbon footprints
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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How climate-conscious Americans reduce their carbon footprints

[ad_1] Bala Sivaraman drives an electric car around the US capital Washington, buys used clothes and furniture and cooks his vegan meals on an induction stove he bought after parting ways with his gas oven.Sim Bilal relies exclusively on public transit -- no easy feat in car-centric Los Angeles -- uses refurbished tech and lives in an apartment with solar panels. As world leaders prepare to meet for crunch COP28 climate talks in the United Arab Emirates next month, some environmentally-conscious Americans are demonstrating it's possible to rein in their carbon emissions, aligning their actions with their values in a country where such lifestyle choices are rare. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join."When we are inundated with a lot of climate doomsday news, it can be really difficult t...
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Tesla Prices Now Rival Average US Cars After Billions in Cuts
10Oct By adminNo Comments
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Tesla Prices Now Rival Average US Cars After Billions in Cuts

[ad_1] Tesla Inc.'s top-selling electric vehicles now compete directly with gasoline cars on price after the latest round of price reductions. The lower prices could cost the company $1.2 billion a year, according to at least one investor.At $38,990, the base Model 3 sedan now costs $8,700 less than the average amount paid for a car or truck in the US. The starting price for a Model Y SUV is $3,700 below the average auto price of roughly $48,000, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Green. Tesla started cutting prices at the start of the year, twisting the screws on legacy automakers that were already struggling to make electric vehicles profitably. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join “Now the fun part of cost declines ... life after price parity,” said Sam Korus, an analyst at Ark I...
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Why Elon Musk might lose his latest battle with the SEC over Twitter probe
10Oct By adminNo Comments
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Why Elon Musk might lose his latest battle with the SEC over Twitter probe

[ad_1] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken Elon Musk to court again, and this time it may win.The agency on Thursday asked a federal court to force Musk to testify for its investigation into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, the third time the SEC has taken Musk to court. It sued him in 2018 and again in 2019 in relation to a tweet Musk sent saying that he had funding secured to take his electric carmaker Tesla private. The 2018 lawsuit was quickly settled on the condition that lawyers vet Musk's future tweets. The 2019 lawsuit by the SEC trying to enforce that deal did not go their way. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to joinIn this case, the SEC is on solid ground as the law enforcing the requirements of investigative demands, or subpoenas, ...
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Why the Indian EV consumer prefers two-wheelers
22Aug By adminNo Comments
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Why the Indian EV consumer prefers two-wheelers

[ad_1] The Indian Electric Vehicle (EV) market has been spinning recently, and two-wheelers are the clear winners in this race on Indian roads. Electric cars might be attracting the global EV consumer, but the Indian EV consumer is clearly showing a preference for two-wheelers.The Indian automotive industry saw a sharp increase in two-wheeler sales in the financial year 2022. According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), in the first two months of this fiscal year, sales of two-wheelers in the local market increased 16% year-on-year to 2,810,138 units. Statista estimates that the Indian demand for EV two-wheelers could reach as much as 8.2 million units annually, looking at the country's massive market potential. This projected demand makes up a crucial part of the...
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Biden Moves to Rein In the Wild West of Car Charging
17Feb By adminNo Comments
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Biden Moves to Rein In the Wild West of Car Charging

[ad_1] The Biden administration wants to make sure America's next 500,000 charging stations work a lot better than the 59,000 it already has.As the White House prepares to spend $7.5 billion on public EV infrastructure, it published a lengthy set of rules Wednesday aimed squarely at the broken chargers and confusing pricing that have hamstrung EV adoption to date. Roughly one in five public fast-charging sessions is a failure, according to a recent J.D. Powers report, and Twitter appears as crowded with irate EV owners as it is Tesla evangelists. “The establishment of this final rule provides a powerful antidote to these issues,” read the criteria laid out by the Department of Transportation. “Consumers will be more confident in the availability, safety and consistency of the EV chargi...
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