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Nissan to launch 3 new EVs and 5 new e-POWER models in Japan by FY2022; 100K LEAFs sold in Japan

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Nissan will develop a new store format centered around the customer shopping area and build new walk-in stores and brand experience stores that give customers the Nissan Intelligent Mobility experience. Every step of the car-buying process will be increasingly digitalized, from initial purchase consideration to aftersales.

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The time has come to get off petroleum

Plug in America

And Russia is just today’s example of oil exporters fueling wars. When you buy electricity, you are investing in building out the grid, renewable power generation and charging infrastructure. We know all the pieces that need to be in place to build and deliver the cars and charging infrastructure. But it’s not just war.

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SpaceX to launch Varda Space’s first Rocket Lab-derived ‘space factory’ satellite

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Founded in late 2020, Varda Space says its mission “is to build the first space factory” – or, to be more precise, the first all-in-one space factory. That means that manifest a Photon-based satellite on a SpaceX rideshare could likely cut the cost of buying and launching a new satellite in half – and maybe further.

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Capstone Turbine seeing microturbine sales to oil and gas industry at record pace

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Over the last few weeks the company has announced deals from new and existing customers that will use the microturbines in the Marcellus and Eagle Ford Shale plays in the US, and for use in Russia. In the CHP applications, the microturbines’ exhaust heat will be used for building and onsite fuel-gas heating.

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Mitsubishi to debut eight xEVs in next five years: hybrids, plug-in hybrids, EVs

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Concurrently, the company will focus on producing new compact vehicles and SUVs in emerging markets, and will strengthen manufacturing capabilities in China, Russia, and Thailand. In Japan, MMC will collaborate with Nissan on a joint venture to build a new minicar for domestic release.

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Opinion: China To Continue Expanding Its Influence In The Oil And Gas Sector

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One of China’s most recent mid-stream deals included building a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan , which is being built despite objections from the U.S. China’s other recent mid-stream pipeline deal was made with Russia. The pipeline will transport crude oil from Russia to Daqing, China.

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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts

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Having prematurely canceled the Space Shuttle in 2011, the US had inexplicably forced itself – entirely of its own volition – into a situation where the only way it could crew the space station it helped spend $100 billion to build was to buy seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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