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VW unveils prototype autonomous charging robot for electric cars

December 29, 2020
VW has unveiled an actual working prototype of an autonomous charging robot for electric cars – something that it has been conceptualizing for years. Last year, we reported on VW unveiling the idea of a charging butler robot concept for electric cars. They had the vision of a robot equipped with a DC charging system that would be able to grab battery packs, connect to them, and bring them parked…
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Ford throws shade at Tesla over quality, calls its electric vehicles a ‘compromise’

December 28, 2020
The head of Ford’s electrification effort has thrown some serious shade at Tesla over quality issues and promises that you won’t have to make that compromise with Ford’s electric vehicles. Darren Palmer, one of the original members of Ford’s Edison team tasked to design the brand’s first all-electric vehicle and now the head of development for Ford and Lincoln’s battery-electric…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 26, 2020

December 27, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Tesla releases software update that turns your car into a boombox, and more

December 27, 2020
Tesla has pushed its ‘holiday update’ and it enables owners to turn their cars into a boombox, as well as a few other improvements. As we have been reporting over the last few weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been teasing a ‘fire’ holiday update to be pushed over-the-air to Tesla’s fleet before the end of 2020. Earlier this week, we reported that it included 3 new in-car video games, but…
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Scientists set a solar cell efficiency world record

December 25, 2020
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the…
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EGEB: Abu Dhabi secures funding for world’s largest solar farm

December 25, 2020
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Al-Dhafra will depose its sister site in Abu Dhabi when it becomes the world’s largest solar farm in 2022. Virginia’s Dominion Energy files plans with federal regulators for the largest US offshore wind farm to date. A Missouri utility acquires its first wind farm — the state’s largest — in its journey from coal to net…
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