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Nissan Leaf battery packs are ending up in robots helping to build electric cars

Nissan is now using old Leaf battery packs in some of the robots that are helping to build the Leaf electric cars in the first place. This is kind of cool! For those who want electric cars to be a solution to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, the end-of-life of a battery pack is really important. Companies are looking at several different solutions, from recycling to second-use.
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First look at 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge EV: Will you miss the X?

We got a limited look at the Volvo C40 Recharge today at the Volvo Cars Manhattan showroom. That’s where the single US C40 currently is residing before its trip to Boston this weekend. Here are our first thoughts. Volvo C40 vs. XC40 As a background, the C40 is a 3-inch-shorter version of the already-announced and on-the-road XC40. Those inches are all chopped off above the door-window line…
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First look at the low-cost SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycle’s removable battery

When the 80 mph (130 km/h) SONDORS Metacycle was first unveiled in January of this year, it shocked the industry with its low price of just $5,000 but also left many unanswered questions. The battery was a key unaddressed topic. We knew that it would be a 4 kWh pack and was removable for charging off the bike. But at the time, that’s about all we knew. In a follow-up interview with Storm…
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The DeanBeat: How Roblox overshadowed Microsoft’s Bethesda event this week

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The big events came in a pair this week as Microsoft completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda. And user-generating game platform Roblox went public and ended its first day of trading at a valuation of $45 billion — valuable enough to be worth six Bethesdas. Clearly, both events are great for…
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