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Calling on Assistant Smart Displays, speakers will soon be limited to your Google Contacts

Google Home devices have long let users place phone calls with just their voice. An upcoming Assistant change will restrict that calling capability to numbers saved in your Google Contacts.  Over the past day, the feed tab of the Google Home app has started displaying an “Important change to calling” card that links to a support article. This is referring to the capability that allows you…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 1, 2021

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.  Check out the , an all EV event taking place at Sonoma Raceway this November…
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Gogoro electric scooters, swappable batteries continue rolling around the world

Gogoro’s international expansion has been going quickly, with the Taiwan-based swappable battery and electric scooter company now announcing a partnership with Gojek to enter the Indonesian market. Indonesia is the third largest market in the world for two-wheeled vehicles like scooters and motorcycles, after China and India (two markets that Gogoro has already announced plans to…
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First Tesla Superchargers for other automakers begin service, higher fees and membership offered

Tesla is launching a pilot program for non-Tesla electric vehicles to use its Supercharger network for the first time. The pilot program is based at 10 Supercharger locations in the Netherlands. Over the last few months, Tesla has indicated that it plans to open the Supercharger network, its extensive global network of fast-charging stations, to electric vehicles from other automakers. Today…
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Lectric XP 2.0 e-bike review: The best bang-for-your-buck in electric bicycles right now

Lectric Ebikes first rolled onto the scene in 2019 when they dropped the affordably priced Lectric XP fat tire folding e-bike seemingly out of nowhere. , the fast and fun electric bicycle became the first e-bike of tens of thousands of new riders around the US. But like in most things in life, first attempts are seldom perfect. So with great anticipation, Lectric Ebikes launched their updated…
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