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EGEB: How Denmark will go from 20k to 1m electric cars by 2030

December 8, 2020
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The Danish parliament approved a plan for at least 1 million electric or hybrid cars on Danish roads by 2030. Boise, Idaho, will now require all new homes to provide a circuit for electric car charging. IRENA urges governments to prioritize renewable energy on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. UnderstandSolar is a free service that…
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Spotify for Android is working on local music playback

December 8, 2020
Streaming music is what most people do nowadays, but local files can help fill in the gaps and pull from a library you spent years curating. Now, Spotify for Android is preparing to finally add support for listening to local music on your phone. Jane Wong discovered a new…
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UK opens first fully electric vehicle service station, powered by solar, today

December 8, 2020
The UK’s first electric vehicle service station, known as the Electric Forecourt®, has been opened by GRIDSERVE today near Braintree, Essex, in southeast England. UK’s first fully solar-powered electric vehicle service station As Fully Charged‘s Robert Llewellyn detailed in a video in an exclusive visit to the station last week, Electric Forecourt features 36 rapid chargers powered by…
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Toyota announces new all-electric SUV, says it’s their ‘first step’ for battery-electric cars

December 8, 2020
Toyota announced today that they will be unveiling a new all-electric SUV in the coming months. The automaker, which has been seen as a lagger when it comes to all-electric vehicles, says that it’s their ‘first step’ for battery-electric vehicles. Toyota has yet to launch an all-electric vehicle outside of China. The Japanese automaker has been focused on hybrids and fuel cell vehicles and…
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Canon Appears to Have Finally Designed a Dual Pixel BSI Sensor

December 7, 2020
Canon has patented a new sensor design that mimics the design of backside-illuminated (BSI) sensors made by Sony. Mixing Dual Pixel with BSI would likely result in huge leaps in low light performance, dynamic range, and readout speeds. The design illustrated in Canon’s patent application does not specifically state that it would be a backside-illuminated, but when compared to a figure of a BSI…
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