Hyundai's 2016 Sonata Plug-In Hybrid to deliver 43 kilometres of EV range

Hyundai's Sonata Plug-In hybrid will apparently manage 43 kilometres of EV range and 40 mpg in hybrid operation mode. This brings a total range of 600 miles or 965 kilometres to this mid-size sedan. The Sonata will have a fuel-injected 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine.

What's more, the 9.8-kWh lithium-polymer battery pack needs three hours to top up when connected to a 240V charger and under nine hours when plugged into a 120V outlet. This is the 7th generation of one of Hyundai's most recognized product lines which first rolled out of the factory in 1985. Plug-in hybrids can be charged via mains sockets or special charging stations yet can also use the gas engine either independently or in hybrid mode for the best performance.

Get some career advice with Real Talk

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Have a kid who doesn’t quite know what field to get into or are you planning on making a switch yourself? New app called Real Talk shares helpful career advice from people who are actually doing the job you want, including things like an industrial designer, hair stylist, Facebook engineers, professional YouTubers, to name a few.

You can browse through the app on your own or use guided questions to lead you to a specific field or person. If you want to bookmark interviews, you need to create an account. If you don’t want to, you can just email or share the stories to yourself through another app for later reading. It’s available for free on Android, iOS, and the web.

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Google introduces Local Guides on Maps

Exploring a new city or new spots in your town? Google is asking the help of the locals to give you a hand. This Local Guides feature is new for Maps and is meant to give its users access to people who are familiar with the area. This title is given to top reviewers on the app who know their city enough and want to talk about the best spots in town. You get to become a Local Guide if you have at least 50+ reviews under your belt. If this is something that interests you too, you can check it out here and find out how to join.

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Don’t expect a MacBook/iPad hybrid, says Apple CEO Tim Cook

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With the launch of the iPad Pro, Apple CEO Tim Cook calls it the replacement device for a notebook or desktop. But he clarifies this as meaning Windows-based notebooks and desktops and not the Mac. “We don’t regard Macs and PCs to be the same,” says Cook. “What we’ve tried to do is recognize that people use both iOS and Mac devices.” He didn’t elaborate this in his independent.ie interview. What Apple has done with the iPad Pro and its newer iOS 9 devices is focusing on the handoff feature instead of bringing iOS and OS X into a single operating system. Cook says he doesn’t think that combining the MacBook and iPad is what the consumers really want.

“Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways,” says Cook.

Source: independent.ie | Via: The Verge