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Poll Shows Decline in UK Public Conviction About Climate Change

Green Car Congress

Overall around nine out of 10 people questioned still appear to accept some degree of global warming. But the steep drop in those without doubts will raise fears that it will be harder to persuade the public to support actions to curb the problem, particularly higher prices for energy and other goods. 3% said they did not know.

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Volvo joins Tesla in halting EV production due to Red Sea attacks

Baua Electric

Since October, the group has attacked several commercial vessels with drones and ballistic missiles and seized what they said was an Israeli cargo ship, reports the BBC. Global shipping companies, in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, have had to redirect or halt shipping altogether.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent. The smart approach would be to pay sellers some portion of their sale price in amazons—maybe 10 percent initially—and the rest in dollars. dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

45 years ago, mass produced computers exploded onto the global stage as a harbinger of the digital future. and relatively small price tag (just US $18,500!), But while the industry continues to look forward, more and more people are looking backward over those 45 years, and further, to the systems of the past.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value. Global EV companies have also had fire incidents. Lower-priced variant S1 will be launched soon. Since then he has stayed with the same battery.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Structural factors (Infrastructure decisions and global shocks to fuel prices) are going to do far more to determine which fuel source wins out — this is not purely demand-driven; this is an “If you build it, they will come&# situation.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. I appreciate our energy company’s trying to do something but they cant really justify it until there is a price on the externalities like carbon emissions.

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