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Check out Honda’s swappable battery stations for electric motorbikes, hoping to go global

October 27, 2022
Honda’s swappable battery packs, known as the Honda Mobile Power Pack e: (MPPe:), are soon getting their own Gogoro-style battery swapping stations for recharging. The station will be known as the Honda Power Pack Exchanger e: (HPPEe:), just in case we needed another long acronym. It features a number of battery slots that would allow electric scooter and motorbike riders to pop in their…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI is shutting down

October 27, 2022
Autonomous vehicle company Argo AI is shutting down. In an earnings report, Ford (a major investor in Argo AI) noted that the company is being wound down and that it will hire engineers from the startup to expand and speed up development of Level 2+ and Level 3 autonomous…
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Ford CEO Farley explains the business factors behind Argo AI's shuttering

October 27, 2022
Shortly after news broke Wednesday afternoon that its self-driving subsidiary Argo AI would be wound down, Ford CEO Jim Farley joined in on the company’s Q3 earnings call and spoke at length about how senior management came to that decision. “It’s estimated that more than a hundred billion has been invested in the promise of level four autonomy,” he said during the call…
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Charging on EVgo just got easier for Teslas

October 27, 2022
EVgo has added Autocharge+ capability to Teslas using the Tesla CCS Adapter in its latest app update. This allows CCS-enabled Teslas to charge at EVgo stations without having to swipe a card. Strangely, it only works when using the Tesla CCS adapter and not when using a…
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GM says it will power all of its US sites with clean energy by 2025

October 27, 2022
General Motors (GM) today announced that it has finalized agreements to power all of its US sites with clean energy by 2025. This is in line with the accelerated target that GM announced in September 2021, which is five years ahead of the 2030 target the company announced in early 2021 and 25 years ahead of the initial target of 2050, set in 2016. GM’s clean energy portfolio now includes…
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MobileNews

Google Duo icon is gone for good on Android, web app gets Meet update

October 27, 2022
At the start of August, Google replaced the Duo logo with Meet’s four-colored icon only to bring it back due to user confusion. With the latest update to Google Meet, the Duo icon is once again gone on Android. In late August, Google intentionally brought back the Duo icon on Android to help people that launch video calling by searching “Duo” in their app launcher. As such, users have two…
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