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Transcarent unveils AI-enabled consumer platform for care navigation

  • May 17, 2024
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Transcarent, a digital platform focused on the self-insured employer market, announced the launch of WayFinding, an AI-enabled consumer-facing platform that offers clinical guidance, benefits navigation and care delivery.  The platform guides patients through receiving care by answering questions about benefits and costs, recommending an appropriate course of clinical action, and then connecting them to human […]

China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes

  • May 17, 2024
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Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. The Fulin Sodium-ion Battery Energy Storage Station entered operation on May 11 in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in southern China. Its initial […]

Ohio supercharges its EV network with second round of NEVI charging stations

  • May 17, 2024
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Photo: DriveOhio Ohio, the first state to install a federally funded DC fast charger, leads again with NEVI rollouts, but its EV incentives are still nonexistent. Ohio’s NEVI DC fast charger rollout Ohio will award nearly $16 million to install 22 new DC fast-charging stations along federally designated EV corridors on interstates, state routes, and […]

Yes, Rivian uses Android Automotive OS to build its software experience

  • May 17, 2024
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Google’s Android Automotive software has been adopted by many carmakers for the EV era, but it tends to vary between different brands. This week Google and Rivian confirmed to 9to5Google that the EV-maker uses Android Automotive as the base of its software experience, something that was previously not known. Rivian’s operating system powers the software […]

Mercedes EV plant in Alabama narrowly declines to join UAW, bucking trend

  • May 17, 2024
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Mercedes-Benz kicks off EQS SUV production in Alabama (Source: Mercedes-Benz) Hot on the heels of a historic victory where VW workers in Tennessee voted to join the United Auto Workers union, Mercedes workers in Vance, Alabama have narrowly voted against joining UAW themselves. The plant makes several cars, among which are the electric EQS and […]

Podcast: Tesla getting close to FSD?, Equinox EV is here, Chinese EVs, and more

  • May 17, 2024
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On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla getting close to Full Self-Driving, Equinox EV is here, Chinese EVs, and more. Sponsored by SplitVolt: The Splitvolt Splitter Switch automatically shares power from your existing 240V dryer socket with your Level […]