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  • How to meet the demand of EV infrastructure and maintain a stable grid

    How to meet the demand of EV infrastructure and maintain a stable grid

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    Andrew Tang Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Tang is vice president of energy storage and optimization at Wärtsilä Energy, which provides solutions for renewable energy integration and EV charging infrastructure development. As electric vehicles (EVs) become the new standard, charging infrastructure will become a commonplace detail blending into the landscape, available in a host of…

  • Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay. The alternative is inequity and an overpaid nomadic class.

    Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay. The alternative is inequity and an overpaid nomadic class.

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    Westend61/Getty Images Isabelle Roughol is the host of Borderline, a podcast and newsletter about living and working across borders. Tech companies who say they'll dock remote workers' pay are being fair, not greedy, she argues. This is because employers consider cost of living and cost of talent when calculating pay. This is an opinion column.…

  • Ingear’s EV Transmission Tries One-Upping 2-Speeds From Porsche, Rimac Using Bicycle Tech

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    Elon Musk’s original Tesla Roadster used a two-speed transmission. It was problematic, so he dropped the additional ratio and still delivered automobiles and SUVs capable of both barbarous stride and license-endangering top speeds. So, who needs multiple gears? Gearing an electrical motor to deliver strong launching torque and then turning it quickly enough for autobahn…

  • Should You Spend $10,000 On Tesla’s Full Self-Driving System?

    Should You Spend $10,000 On Tesla’s Full Self-Driving System?

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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently announced the automaker is increasing the price of their Full Self-Driving system by $2,000. That’s a significant jump and brings the system’s price to $10,000. Which begs the question of whether or not it’s worth it. The simple answer, for now, might be no. The technology is still in beta…

  • Who Will Build the First Manual Transmission Electric Enthusiast’s Car?

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    The “flippening” of cars occurred, to a tiny bit of pomp, in late 2019–the first year electric cars outsold manual transmission-equipped cars. First and foremost, but definitely not the last, right? Maybe the guide transmission’s passing isn’t imminent, but already here; just 1.1 percent of cars were sold with guides in 2019. By Miracle Max’s…

  • Will You Like Your Self-Driving Car? And Will It Like You?

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    Freedom via automobile—and the box it draws around everything else—has defined most of the past century, from the layouts of our cities to the designs of our homes and even the music we enjoy. Yet almost as soon as cars started defining the cultural zeitgeist, our collective imaginations turned to the next step: the freedom…

  • How Will the Auto Industry Fare in the Wake of the Pandemic?

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    Auto sales fell more than 32 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier, and while that seems dismal, it was cause for optimism among perennially sunny car company marketing and sales people when compared with April’s drop of roughly 50 percent. The trend toward a “V”-shaped recovery, for the auto biz…

  • How the Amazing Pininfarina Battista Came to Be

    How the Amazing Pininfarina Battista Came to Be

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    It’s brisk and sunny Italian dawn in March when, after a brief walk from a nearby businessman’s hotel, we locate ourselves drifting among the famous concept cars put up in a type of mini museum format in Pininfarina SpA’s Italian headquarters in Cambiano, out of Turin. My host arrives presently. Having met up with company…

  • I Think I Can Feel the Electric-Car Movement Finally Gaining Speed

    I Think I Can Feel the Electric-Car Movement Finally Gaining Speed

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    When speaking of electric cars, important media still appear to speak more about them in the future sense instead of in a current one, as if EVs are coming, but not here yet. In fact, however, they have been here: You might not understand it, however sales of electric vehicles were up 81% in 2018.…

  • FrankenSUV: Creating the Ultimate Compact CUV From the CX-5, CR-V, Cherokee, and Others

    FrankenSUV: Creating the Ultimate Compact CUV From the CX-5, CR-V, Cherokee, and Others

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    Although this Big Test comparison rightly ranks the entrants in the compact SUV segment, each vehicle that participated had some winning traits that stood out from all the rest. Which got the test judges thinking: What if someone took the very best elements from all these crossovers and mashed them into a single, perfect crossover?…