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🦾 Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home
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Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home
Current battery management systems might report a car is 40% charged but drivers have to guess whether they can go 100 kilometers over hills with the heater running. Engineers at the University of California, Riverside want to take the guesswork out of it.

It astonishes me that in all these years, humanity hasn't come up with an easy offline way to transmit a location from a mobile device to a car's navigation system.
I feel like it should be part of Bluetooth. Like, it should send a tiny file over bluetooth containing the address and/or coordinates.
Oh well. Time to type it all in…
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Steering wheel and dashboard of a Chevrolet Corvair, a controversial car that was ahead of it's time that's still popular with collectors
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🛻 Ram ends EV pickup truck plans
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Ram ends EV pickup truck plans | TechCrunch
Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, said Friday that it will no longer develop a battery-electric full-size pickup. The company cited low demand for full-size battery-electric trucks as the primary reason.

The ten biggest #TechCompanies spend three(!) times more for lobbying than the top 10 spenders of #pharma #finance #automotive

Bel Air Seen at the Super Cream (great Soft Serve North of Homer!) heading back from Sunday's Car Show
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