Fast-charging technologies are driving the growth of the electric vehicle recharging market, with the cumulative number of stations established worldwide expanding by a factor of more than 100 times from 2012 to 2020, according to a new ...
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors has started operations at its new vehicle assembly plant located at Tilburg in Netherlands. The new plant will offer services as an assembly as well as distribution point for the Model S vehicles for the ...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed his plans for the Hyperloop, a futuristic mode of transport that would be high-speed, low-impact, self-sustaining and immune to weather and seismic irregularities. The Hyperloop is a proposed transport ...
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Continental Tire the Americas LLC announces that the 21-inch wheel option of Tesla's Model S premium electric sedan comes outfitted with Continental tires. The upgraded wheel option comes with the 245/35 R 21 Continental ExtremeContact DW ...
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Augmented reality, image recognition and other multimedia features could be standard in future smartphones and tablets, and Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 5 mobile chip will have features to handle such demanding graphics capabilities. Nvidia on ...
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We're very happy to bring you new episodes of Talking Cars with Consumer Reports. Episode 7 features Auto Test Director Jake Fisher, and senior engineers Gabe Shenhar and Tom Mutchler, who doubles as your host. This episode is an ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its nod to market Rhythmlink's Disposable MR Conditional Cup Electrodes in the US. FDA approval makes Disposable MR Conditional Cup Electrodes, which have been in development since many ...
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Tesla has long been coy in responding to rumors that the company's Model S will support battery swapping. No more. Last night at a California event, the company demonstrated the ability to hot-swap batteries in a Model S in about 90 ...
The first time Zero Motorcycles stopped by our headquarters four years ago, we were intrigued by the promise of electric motorcycles, but our team felt they needed more work. Fast forward a few years, and the new line from Zero comes across ...
Two recalls caught our attention this week: Chrysler agreed to essentially recall about 1.6 million older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs to retroactively improve rear crash protection, after making headlines for initially refusing a ...
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There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Tesla Model S, so I was anxious to get a chance to live with it for a few days and see if I felt it deserved the top score awarded by my engineer colleagues. I am happy to say, the car did not ...
Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
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NHTSA Administrator David Strickland At the Consumer Reports "Fuel Economy: Now and in the Future" event last week, the theme was easy to spot: No matter what kind of car you want, you can find one today that gets good gas mileage. And ...
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Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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The Tesla Model S fell short of a perfect score in our testing for one simple reason: You can't jump in it any time you want, and drive to absolutely any point on the map at a moment's notice. But, Tesla has just announced a big step in ...
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