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Hertz ordering 100,000 Teslas by end of 2022

Green Car Congress

This includes an initial order of 100,000 Teslas by the end of 2022 and new EV charging infrastructure across the company’s global operations. Global EV sales skyrocketed 200% in the last year and will likely continue to grow with commitments from global automakers to increase EV sales.

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No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

Baua Electric

At this point, your goal is just to get to the path of totality and see the eclipse for the longest possible time,” said Melanie Fish, the head of global public relations for Expedia Group Brands. Neighborhood locations, she said, may have better availability. If that’s you, you’ve still got options, but not as many. “At

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Good old now dead Jackass, Ryan Dunn, never provided me with a single ounce of entertainment, but he has handily provided me with an apt metaphor for all his fellow Jackasses who keep talking smack and moron-level nonsense about global warming and climate change being a hoax. So he’s got that going for him now. Fair enough.

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Good old now dead Jackass, Ryan Dunn, never provided me with a single ounce of entertainment, but he has handily provided me with an apt metaphor for all his fellow Jackasses who keep talking smack and moron-level nonsense about global warming and climate change being a hoax. So he’s got that going for him now. Fair enough.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

billion people around the world who don’t have meaningful access to it, according to a Brookings Institution report, “Bridging the Global Digital Divide.” VPUU works to transform low-income neighborhoods into safer, more sustainable communities. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

Over the past few decades, the art world has opened up beyond Europe and North America to create a more globalized market. Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. And that is how the most successful arts spaces in Ghana felt.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

Cars That Think

It starts by querying peers: other computers in the user’s vicinity, others in the same house or office, others in the same neighborhood, others in the same city—expanding progressively outward to globally distant locations, if need be, until the system finds a copy of what you’re looking for.

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