Category: North America

Get In Hosers, Electrify America Is Going To Canada! | Roadshow

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Electrify America crossed the border and opened its first charging station as Electrify Canada. Most of you by now are familiar with Electrify America, aka the Volkswagen-backed charging network. It’s been not-so-quietly expanding its network of Level 2 and DC fast-charging stations across the US for a couple of years, and it was only a matter of time before it crossed our northern border. Read full story here: Get In Hosers, Electrify America Is Going To Canada! | Roadshow

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Boys, The Wealthy, And Canadians (?) Talk The Most BS | Ars Technica

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The existence of what’s colloquially known as “bullshit”—a combination of lies, exaggerations, and inaccuracies that makes it hard to figure out what the truth is—is familiar to all of us. Most of us have come across an individual so skilled in deploying it to advance their goals that we refer to them as “bullshit artists.” Given it’s such a prominent aspect of human behavior, however, you might be surprised to learn that field of bullshit studies is relatively young. Researchers trace BS back to an obscure 1986 essay by philosopher…

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ChargePoint Is Adding 2.5M Electric Vehicle Chargers Over The Next 7 Years | TechCrunch

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Electric vehicles still make up just a fraction of the cars, trucks and SUVs on the road today. But that’s changing: the number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017. By 2025, there are expected to be 20 million electric vehicles in just North America and Europe. And that means the world is going to need a lot more chargers. ChargePoint, the California startup that provides infrastructure for electric vehicles, said Friday it will expand its network of chargers nearly 50-fold over the…

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