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Tesla tweaks financing product with best resale value guarantee and lower monthly payments

Green Car Congress

In response to critiques of the first version of its financing program introduced early in April ( earlier post ), Tesla Motors has raised the Model S resale value guarantee to be the highest of any premium sedan brand made in volume (excludes rare, low volume or limited edition vehicles). —Tesla Co-founder & CEO Elon Musk.

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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. Since it’s a “ collective self-consumption ” project, residents are paying €5 ($5.20) to buy in. The municipality will fully finance the €3.35 million ($3.6

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. Paul, Minn. members’ careers. Gaynor remains active.

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The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Cars That Think

Gordon Moore himself told us so in his seminal 1965 magazine article, in which he predicted that we would be able to double the number of components in a digital integrated circuit every year for the next 10 years (turns out he was a pessimist). Batteries are key to decarbonizing our economies. But it'll never happen.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. Johnson is working to change those shortcomings with her fintech startup, Global Mobile Finance , which is based in Morrisville, N.C. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. IEEE Fellow Sandra K.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. He was a geek.

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