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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

Green Car Congress

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. This is an exciting idea that has the potential to add a scalable alternative into the portfolio of companies looking to reduce their carbon footprint.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

Cars That Think

But if television really was going to be the future, RCA had to convince consumers to buy sets. Throughout the fair’s 18-month run, the company arranged to have four models of television receivers, all designed by Vassos, available for sale at various department stores in the New York metropolitan region.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

Cars That Think

Nobody had an idea that this was going to be happening,” recalls Leng. So who might buy it? All that information is stored on the aircraft and downloaded to our database at the end of the flight. But as he looked to set his craft down, he saw a wing starting to dig into his lawn. “Uh-oh, Uh-oh, this is not good,” he thought.

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Tesla factors in important metric for more accurate driving range

Teslarati

People who buy EVs want to know if their range ratings are suitable for their most common type of travel, whether it would be a daily commute to work or lengthy road trips. The older a battery gets, the less life cycles it has and the less able it is to hold onto stored energy. One of those stable factors is battery age.

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The ultimate guide to buying an EV in Australia: This is everything you need to know

EV Central

Here’s the complete guide on buying an EV – and everything you should be ready for when you take delivery of your first electric car. It refers to alternating current (like what comes out of your home powerpoint) and direct current (like what’s stored in batteries). Electric cars are getting more popular.

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How To Modernize Your Business?

Get Electric Vehicle

Standing still means you’ll get left behind as more and more businesses are launched and move past you with their new ideas and innovative ways of working that customers adore.  A lot of the time, people don’t carry cash with them at all, preferring instead to use a card or even their phones to pay with.

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Tesla Megapacks to be deployed at Apple’s California solar farm

Teslarati

The project, which was approved by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors last year, will store up to 240 MWh of energy, and be used to help power the company’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino. . The project will also store energy gathered from the California Flats, a 130 MW solar farm.

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