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Porsche’s new camping accessory turns its cars into tents

The Spaces

Designed for the 911 series, Porsche’s Tequipment Roof Tent pops open to transform the top of a car into a two-person ‘room with a view’. It hits the market in November 2022, with a price tag of $5,000. This angular Chinese electric car is inspired by the Hummer H-1. Photography: Porsche.

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Solar cars will be "normal within 20 years" says Lightyear's head engineer

Deezen

Integrated solar panels could help electric cars rival their fossil-fuel counterparts by making them less reliant on charging points and potentially free to run, says Lightyear 's Emanuele Cornagliotti in this interview as part of our Solar Revolution series. "I It's a topic that all big car manufacturers are working on.".

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EVs are cool, but what about high-speed rail?

Brandon Donnelly

The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy put the price tag at about $12-billion, which is $2-billion less than the bucks being thrown at the Volkswagen battery plant alone. But forget it – the Canadian government wants more cars, not fewer. Canadian cities will remain car sewers forever.”

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Electric driving: At a Tipping Point or Stuck in Byzantine Pricing and Charging?

Community Architect

Why are there so few electric cars on the road in the US, no matter how expensive the gas, or how climate is on people's minds in a summer of relentless fires, flooding, code red air quality alerts and heat records? Too expensive For starters, electric cars are expensive and have become more so in the last year.

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Happenings

SW Oregon Architect

The price tag, which reflected the suite of improvements necessary to entirely satisfy the City’s strict criteria, was steep. An "artist's rendering" of the development proposed by the Obie Companies for its property on the north side of Fifth Avenue between the Oregon Electric Station and Station Square.

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Building Foundations: Cofounder Alex Diehl Reflects on Architizer’s Past

Architizer

Alex Diehl: At my digital design agency in Berlin, KKLD*, we were building some of the UX/UI for BMW’s innovative mobility services, DriveNow, the car sharing service and ChargeNow the electric vehicle charging app which both became very successful in Europe. Tag” talents to projects so to speak.

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How to Remove Snow Without Ruining the Environment

Dwell

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency , an average two-stroke snowblower emits about one pound of carbon monoxide per hour—the same amount a car emits while driving 70 miles. While an electric shovel won’t remove as much snow as a snow blower, it reduces the need to lift and dump each shovel full of heavy snow.