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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

But no matter where we went, we could not escape one thing: the goddamn thermostat. We were never going to break into that old boys’ club. In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. A startup was not the plan. The plan was a break. A long one. We had to do it for real, while keeping it dead simple for customers.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. EV market share went from a stratospheric 45% to escape-velocity 63%, crossing 100k on a population of barely 5M.

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