ABB launched its Terra HP electric vehicle chargers at Hannover Messe during an industrial trade fair yesterday.
Operating at powers of up to 350 kilowatts and adding as much as 300 kilometers of range to an electric vehicle in just 12 minutes, the Terra HP chargers hope to made electric cars more appealing for consumers by enabling them to refresh the batteries in about the same time required for filling up a petrol-powered car.
Terra HP chargers have been selected for use by Electrify America, the largest electric vehicle infrastructure project to date in the United States.
ABB, who has an interest in industrial automation and robots enabled by artificial intelligence, also released a report in partnership with The Economist Intelligence Unit, entitled The Automation Readiness Index: Who Is Ready for the Coming Wave of Innovation?
The report, while noting the economic and human benefits of industrial automation, finds that even the best-prepared countries must develop more effective education policies and training programs.
Those policies and programs, the report recommends, must ensure that the rapid adoption of automation technologies and AI don’t leave people unprepared for the new, more human-oriented jobs that will be needed as robots and algorithms take on more of the routine tasks that can be and will be automated.
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