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Tesla goes full Apple and stops delivering cars with included charging hardware, now sold separately

April 17, 2022
Tesla changed its long-standing policy to deliver every vehicle with a mobile charging cable and instead, it starts selling them separately for $400 for level 2 charging and $275 for level 1. The move is reminiscent of Apple removing the included USB charging brick with the iPhone. With charging being one of the biggest concerns for electric vehicle buyers, it made sense for Tesla to include a…
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Quick Charge Podcast: April 16, 2022

April 17, 2022
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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Chrome for Android tests confusing New Tab Page revamp, how to get the old design back [U]

April 17, 2022
While Chrome has been visually refreshed over the years, Google has kept the core user experience intact to avoid “disorienting” users. Over the past few weeks, however, Chrome for Android has been testing a redesigned New Tab Page that changes quite a few things for the worse, but fortunately you can get back the old version. Update 4/16/22: Google did not widely roll out this redesign last…
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Hitachi Energy is using its expertise to bridge gap between transportation fleets and utilities to ease the transition to electrification

April 16, 2022
During a recent live virtual event on LinkedIn, the Head of Hitachi Energy North America, Anthony Allard, and Hitachi America Chairman and CEO, Hicham Abdessamad, on promoting sustainability throughout all its segments. As a climate change innovator, Hitachi’s executives point out the impending challenges the transportation sector faces, and outline solutions the company provides to commercial…
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This week’s top stories: Google Photos unlimited backup returns, Weather Frog for Nest Hub, more

April 16, 2022
In this week’s top stories: Google Photos regains a carrier-exclusive unlimited backups plan, Weather Frog hops onto 2nd-gen Nest Hub, Waze gains a “Retro Mode,” and more. Once an exclusive perk of the Pixel series before being retired, Google has announced the upcoming return of an unlimited backups plan for Photos. The option will seemingly be exclusively available to T-Mobile customers…
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